In this study, a physiographic drainage-inundation model was used to analyse the impacts of land subsidence and climate change on inundation disaster and risk in a land subsidence area. The results indicated that for land subsidence and land subsiden...
Land subsidence caused by groundwater withdrawal induced by mining is a relatively unknown phenomenon. This is primarily due to the small scale of such movements compared to the land subsidence caused by deposit extraction. Nonetheless, the environme...
31 July 2019
Land subsidence was once a major geo-hazard in the city of Shanghai, China. From 1921 to 1965, the maximum cumulative land subsidence in the urban areas of China reached 2.6 m. This large subsidence has resulted in high economic losses for Shanghai....
Beijing is a city on the North China Plain with severe land subsidence. In recent years, Beijing has implemented effective measures to control land subsidence. Since this implementation, the development of time-series land subsidence in Beijing has s...
High subsidence rates, along with eustatic sea-level change, sediment accumulation and shoreline erosion have led to widespread land loss and the deterioration of ecosystem health around the Lower Mississippi River Basin (LMRB). A proper evaluation o...
Land subsidence is a common geological hazard. Rapid urban expansion has led to different degrees of ground subsidence within Wuhan in the past few years. The novel coronavirus outbreak in 2020 has seriously impacted urban construction and people&rsq...
The phenomenon of land subsidence has been demonstrated to exert a considerable influence on GPS observations. However, to date, no study which has successfully removed the impact of land subsidence on GPS horizontal motion has been conducted. We dev...
The long-term overexploitation of groundwater leads to serious land subsidence and threatens the safety of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei (BTH). In this paper, an interferometric point target analysis (IPTA) with small baseline subset InSAR (SBAS-InSAR) techn...
Since the 1970s, land subsidence has been rapidly developing on the Beijing Plain, and the systematic study of the evolutionary mechanism of this subsidence is of great significance in the sustainable development of the regional economy. On the basis...
Land subsidence and sea level rise are well-known, ongoing problems that are negatively impacting the entire Texas coast. Although ground-based monitoring techniques using long-term global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) records provide accurate...
The Central Valley of California is one of the most prolific agricultural regions in the world. Agriculture is reliant on the conjunctive use of surface-water and groundwater. The lack of available surface-water and land-use changes have led to pumpi...
In the Beijing plain, the long-term groundwater overexploitation, exploitation, and the utilization of superficial urban space have led to land subsidence. In this study, the spatial–temporal analysis of land subsidence in Beijing was assessed by usi...
The present review paper focuses on selected cases around the world of land subsidence phenomena caused by the overexploitation of aquifers. Land subsidence is closely related to human activity. In particular, the development of technology has led to...
In this article, the characterization of land subsidence with the spatial variability of soil formation and groundwater withdrawals in Choshui delta, Taiwan, is presented. Levelling surveys, borehole logging, multi-layer compaction monitoring network...
Land subsidence has become an increasing global concern over the past few decades due to natural and anthropogenic factors. However, although several studies have examined factors affecting land subsidence in recent years, few have focused on the spa...
Land subsidence in the Eastern Beijing Plain has a long history and is always serious. In this paper, we consider the time-series evolution patterns of the eastern of Beijing Plain. First, we use the Persistent Scatterer Interferometric Synthetic Ape...
Due to a heavy reliance on groundwater, Bangladesh is experiencing a severe decline in groundwater storage, with some areas even facing land subsidence. This study aims to investigate the relationship between groundwater storage changes and land subs...
Land subsidence caused by human engineering activities is a serious problem worldwide. We selected Qian’an County as the study area to explore the evolution of land subsidence and predict its deformation trend. This study utilized synthetic ape...
In this work we present an application of InSAR and gravimetric surveys for risk management related to land subsidence and surface ground faulting generation. A subsidence velocity map derived from the 2007–2011 ALOS SAR imagery and a sediment thickn...
18 April 2022
Land subsidence is a global geological disaster that seriously affects the safety of surface and underground buildings/structures and even leads to loss of life and property. The large-scale and continuous long-time coverage of Interferometric Synthe...
The prediction of land subsidence is of significant value for the early warning and prevention of geological disasters. Although numerous land subsidence prediction methods are currently available, two obstacles still exist: (i) spatio-temporal heter...
This paper uses Grey Correlation Degree Analysis (GCDA) to obtain and compare the relationships between major impacting factors and land subsidence, and finds the spatial characteristics of subsidence in the urban centre by Exploratory Spatial Data A...
In the Beijing Plain, land subsidence is one of the most prominent geological problems, which is affected by multiple factors. Groundwater exploitation, thickness of the Quaternary deposit and urban development and construction are important factors...
The majority of residential, agricultural, and industrial areas are situated on cohesive soil in the Nile Delta, Egypt. Excessive pumping from the Nile Delta aquifer to meet the increasing demands for water could lead to aquifer system compaction and...
Under the background of over-exploitation of groundwater and urban expansion, the land subsidence in the Beijing Plain has dramatically increased recently, and has demonstrated obvious mutation characteristics. Firstly, this paper used the land-use t...
This study uses remote sensing data to assess susceptibility to hazards, which are then validated to model impact scenarios for land subsidence and coastal flooding in the Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM) of Selangor, Malaysia, to support de...
Differential Synthetic Aperture Radar Interferometry (DInSAR) is a remote sensing technique that is capable of detecting land surface deformation with centimeter accuracy. In this research, this technique was applied to two pairs of Advanced Land Obs...
The Mekong Delta region has been seriously affected by climate change, with increasing temperatures, sea-level rise, and salinization strongly impacting agricultural activities of the region. Recent studies have shown that groundwater exploitation al...
Finding a suitable location is a key factor for long-term investment in wind turbine energy. It includes understanding the area of interest, such as the subsidence of the land. Land subsidence is a gradual decrease in the surface of the Earth due to...
Groundwater overexploitation and loading of buildings have been the main factors triggering land subsidence along the west coast of Bohai Bay, China, since the 2000s. Uneven subsidence has been causing damage to buildings and civil facilities, loss o...
Globally, intensive groundwater extraction has led to widespread land subsidence, posing severe threats to urban infrastructure, structural safety, and flood control capacity, and resulting in substantial economic losses and ecological degradation. B...
As one of the 19 key regions for comprehensive land development in China, the Tianshan North Slope urban agglomeration is significant for China’s urban development when calculating the land subsidence and analyzing the impact factors. This stud...
Jakarta has been experiencing severe land subsidence over the last few decades. A questionnaire survey of local inhabitants revealed that seawater is already overtopping coastal dykes and flooding a vulnerable community along Jakarta’s waterfront. Th...
The coupled effects of climate change and land sinking make deltas and coastal areas prone to inundation and flooding, meaning that reliable estimation of land subsidence is becoming crucial. Commonly, land subsidence is monitored by accurate continu...
High-speed railways in the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei (BTH) Plain are gradually becoming more widespread, covering a greater area. The operational safety of high-speed railways is influenced by the continuous development of land subsidence. It...
Land subsidence, a slow-onset geohazard, poses a severe threat to cities worldwide. However, the lack of quantification in terms of intensity, probability, and hazard zoning complicates the assessment and understanding of the land subsidence risk. In...
This paper aims to develop a set of valid and reliable indicators to evaluate the regional land subsidence disaster vulnerability. The proposed indicator system can provide effective theoretical support for further land subsidence risk evaluation and...
The endorheic Konya Basin is a vast aggradational plain in Central Anatolia, Türkiye. It occupies a significant portion of Konya Province, covering approximately 50,000 km2. The basin is subjected to intense groundwater withdrawal and extensive...
Water and land resources are important material bases of economic and social development, and their spatial patterns determine the pattern of the urban development. The development and expansion of coal-resource-based cities have introduced new socie...
Global sea level rise is a major environmental concern for many countries and cities, particularly for low-lying coastal areas where urban development is threatened by the combined effects of sea level rise and land subsidence. This study employed an...
In recent years, Shanghai has entered a stage of microscale land subsidence, but the uneven subsidence is still significant, with long-term impacts on the operational safety of subways and other infrastructures. On the basis of 154 high-resolution Te...
In this study, land subsidence susceptibility was assessed for a study area in South Korea by using four machine learning models including Bayesian Logistic Regression (BLR), Support Vector Machine (SVM), Logistic Model Tree (LMT) and Alternate Decis...
As urban construction has been leaping forward recently, large-scale land subsidence has been caused in Kunming due to the special hydrogeological conditions of the city; the subsidence scope has stretched out, and the subsidence rate has been rising...
Shandong Province (SDP) experienced serious land subsidence from March 2017 to December 2020. Exploring the response relationships between land subsidence and its inducing factors plays an important role in ensuring the development of the economy and...
The wettest 2018 long rainy season (March to May (MAM)) resulted in daily intensive rainfall events in East Africa that have seriously affected the environment and economy in many countries. Land subsidence is one of the environmental disasters that...
In the early stages, uncontrolled groundwater extraction led to the Hangjiahu (HJH) Plain becoming one of the areas with the most severe land subsidence in China. Since the beginning of this century, comprehensive measures have been taken to control...
In this paper, we use interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) annual and time-series analysis of RADARSAT-2 SAR data, spanning from September 2011 to October 2022, to study the temporal–spatial characteristics of land subsidence in Hen...
Jiaozuo, located in the northwest of Henan Province, is one of the six major anthracite production bases in China. It is susceptible to land subsidence due to over a hundred years of mining history, continuous urbanization, frequent human activities,...
It has been observed that in the urban center of Shanghai, land subsidence has accelerated, and the groundwater level has continued to drop even though the net withdrawn volume (NWV) of groundwater has remained unchanged since 1980. An analysis of mo...
Understanding the effect mechanisms of various factors on land subsidence may help in the development of scientific measures to control land subsidence. Previous studies mainly focused on exploring local effect mechanisms, such as extracting hotspots...
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