Road pavement deformation using remote sensing technique

Abstract

The road surface reflects the status of the city’s infrastructure. Road safety and driving comfort can be affected by the rough surface. To minimize road hazards, pavement conditions must be periodically inspected for damaged surfaces. A quick and efficient data collection can be provided by the radar images. For a large spatial coverage, radar image provides a non-destructive data collection technique for analyzing road conditions and classifying distress. The surface distress can be correlated by analyzing the images collected from high-resolution cameras and satellites. This article outlines the applicability of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) and interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) based images to manage and monitor pavement infrastructure. Therefore, the detection of deteriorating surfaces can be improved by analyzing the radar images timely. The results showed the deficiencies on the surface that can be used to mitigate bad pavement conditions and allow road users to use good road infrastructure with safety and comfort.