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InSAR Techniques for Landslide Study: A Review of Methods, Challenges, and Emerging Trends.

Hanlu Zhang, Bowen Liu, Daming Zhu, Zhanfeng Liu, Mengyao Shi

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Review in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Hanlu ZhangFaculty of Land Resources Engineering, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming 650031, China.ORCID 0009-0003-2408-646X
Bowen LiuKey Laboratory of High Impact Weather (Special), Changsha 410073, China.
Daming ZhuFaculty of Land Resources Engineering, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming 650031, China.
Zhanfeng LiuYunnan Key Laboratory of Intelligent Monitoring and Spatiotemporal Big Data Governance of Natural Resources, Kunming 650051, China.
Mengyao ShiFaculty of Land Resources Engineering, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming 650031, China.ORCID 0000-0002-2236-6981

Funding

Key Laboratory of High Impact Weather (special), China Meteorological Administration 2024-K-07National Natural Science Foundation of China 4250010078Yunjindi Research Projects KKK0202521065Yunnan Fundamental Research Projects 202501CF070152Yunnan Key Laboratory of Intelligent Monitoring of Natural Resources and Spatiotemporal Big Data Governance 202449CE340023
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Abstract

Landslides occur frequently under complex and variable global geomorphological and meteorological conditions, posing serious threats to the ecological environment, human life and property. Traditional monitoring approaches are often inefficient and highly susceptible to external conditions, making them inadequate for large-scale rapid deformation monitoring. Owing to its advantages of high precision, wide-area coverage, and all-weather continuous observation, Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) technology has been widely applied in landslide monitoring. This paper systematically reviews the development and application of InSAR technologies in landslide monitoring. Classical methods, including Differential InSAR (D-InSAR), Permanent Scatterer InSAR (PS-InSAR), Small Baseline Subset InSAR (SBAS-InSAR), and Distributed Scatterer InSAR (DS-InSAR), as well as derivative techniques such as Quasi-Permanent Scatterer InSAR (QPS-InSAR), Temporarily Coherent Point InSAR (TCP-InSAR), and Multiple Aperture InSAR (MAI), are comprehensively summarized. In addition, recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and multi-source data fusion are highlighted. Through comparative analysis of related studies, this paper summarizes the applicability and potential of various methods in landslide monitoring, and reviews the main solutions to challenges, including geometric distortion, decorrelation noise, atmospheric delay, and difficulties in three-dimensional deformation monitoring. Future research directions are also discussed. Overall, InSAR technology has evolved from single-method approaches toward integrated and intelligent frameworks; however, challenges remain in terms of adaptability in complex terrain, data-processing efficiency, and model interpretability. This review provides a technical reference for future landslide-monitoring research.

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deep learningInSARlandslide monitoringrheologysurface deformation

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PMID42590446
PMCPMC13468315

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