Remote sensing activities to support the Sustainable Development Goals

Abstract. The Sustainable Development Goals are 17 goals set up by the world leaders to be achieved by 2030 that respond to the world's main development challenges. Such Goals are complemented by many targets and are to be measured by a large set of indicators. Remote sensing, with its capability to monitor systematically several parameters at global scale, can surely provide a valuable support the Sustainable Development Goals. In this paper we describe the remote sensing experience of the authors, which can be relevant to different Sustainable Development Goals. Such an experience is mainly based on active radar remote sensing using Synthetic Aperture Radar and the interferometric technique. However, this paper also describes studies that are based on other remote sensing techniques. The paper discusses six types of remote sensing applications: urban deformation monitoring; landslide and subsidence monitoring; deformation monitoring related to mining activity and mining security; glacier velocity monitoring; environmental monitoring; and coastal monitoring.