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With this aim, we have developed a fully automatic processing chain for land deformation monitoring using the European Space Agency (ESA) SentiNel Application Platform (SNAP) and Stanford Method for Persistent Scatterers (StaMPS). We have applied this automatic processing chain to more than 160 Sentinel-1A images over ascending and descending orbits to depict primarily the Line-Of-Sight ground deformation rates. Results of both geometries were then combined to compute the actual vertical motion component, which resulted in more than 2 million point targets, over their common area. Deformation measurements are in agreement with past studies over the city of Rome, identifying main subsidence areas in: (i) Fiumicino; (ii) along the Tiber River; (iii) Ostia and coastal area; (iv) Ostiense quarter; and (v) Tivoli area. Finally, post-processing of Persistent Scatterer Inteferometry (PSI) results, in a Geographical Information System (GIS) environment, for the extraction of ground displacements on urban infrastructures (including road networks, buildings and bridges) is considered.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs11020129","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,1,11]],"date-time":"2019-01-11T11:36:42Z","timestamp":1547206602000},"page":"129","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":149,"title":["Measuring Urban Subsidence in the Rome Metropolitan Area (Italy) with Sentinel-1 SNAP-StaMPS Persistent Scatterer Interferometry"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"11","author":[{"given":"Jos\u00e9 Manuel","family":"Delgado Blasco","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Grupo de Investigaci\u00f3n Microgeodesia Ja\u00e9n (PAIDI RNM-282), Universidad de Ja\u00e9n, 23071 Ja\u00e9n, Spain"}]},{"given":"Michael","family":"Foumelis","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"BRGM\u2013French Geological Survey, 45060 Orleans, France"}]},{"given":"Chris","family":"Stewart","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Future Systems Department, Earth Observation Programmes, European Space Agency (ESA), 00044 Frascati, Italy"}]},{"given":"Andrew","family":"Hooper","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Geophysics and Tectonics, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2019,1,11]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","unstructured":"Veci, L., Lu, J., Prats-Iraola, P., Scheiber, R., Collard, F., Fomferra, N., and Engdahl, M. 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