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The peculiarity of the case study is the fact that the village is simultaneously affected by two different types of slope instabilities. The southwest sector, representing the historical part of the village, has been affected by large rockfalls generated from the \u201cCapo le Vene\u201d cliff located in the south of the village. The northeastern sector of the village represents the most recent urbanized area and is involved in a deep-seated landslide that, in the last decades, has damaged buildings and infrastructure. In this context, we have used two different types of remote sensing techniques to study the two phenomena. The rockfall area has been surveyed through the use of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) that allowed the definition of main joint sets and the volume of blocks associated with the most recent (2011) rockfall event. Three main joint sets have been highlighted, which are responsible for the failure of the \u201cCapo le Vene\u201d cliff. The volume of blocks that failed during the last rock failure in 2011 ranged from a few to 1500 m3. The deep-seated landslide has been studied by analyzing borehole data and 20 years of InSAR data from ERS1\/2, ENVISAT, COSMO-SkyMed, and SENTINEL-1. It has been highlighted by InSAR analysis that the northeast sector of the village shows a perfectly linear displacement trend that generates movements up to about 230 mm (about 1 cm\/year).<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs16173151","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,8,27]],"date-time":"2024-08-27T03:51:06Z","timestamp":1724730666000},"page":"3151","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":2,"title":["Deep-Seated Landslide and Rockfalls Threatening the Village of Pietracamela in Central Italy: Deciphering Phenomena from Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar and Point Cloud Analysis"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"16","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6358-374X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Mirko","family":"Francioni","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Pure and Applied Sciences, Carlo Bo University of Urbino, 61029 Urbino, Italy"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-3480-3667","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Domenico","family":"Calcaterra","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Earth, Environmental and Resource Sciences, Federico II University of Naples, Monte Sant\u2019Angelo Campus, 80126 Naples, Italy"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0046-9530","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Diego","family":"Di Martire","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Earth, Environmental and Resource Sciences, Federico II University of Naples, Monte Sant\u2019Angelo Campus, 80126 Naples, Italy"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5837-5409","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Luigi","family":"Guerriero","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Earth, Environmental and Resource Sciences, Federico II University of Naples, Monte Sant\u2019Angelo Campus, 80126 Naples, Italy"}]},{"given":"Gabriele","family":"Scarascia Mugnozza","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Earth Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome, Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, 00185 Rome, Italy"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0554-415X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Nicola","family":"Sciarra","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Psychological, Health, and Territorial Sciences (DiSPuTER), Gabriele D\u2019Annunzio University of Chieti-Pescara, 66100 Chieti, Italy"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2024,8,26]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Glade, T., Anderson, M.G., and Crozier, M.J. 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