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  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,434 Views
16 Pages

19 September 2023

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,770 Views
30 Pages

28 January 2024

The nonlinearity nature of land subsidence and limited observations cause premature convergence in typical data assimilation methods, leading to both underestimation and miscalculation of uncertainty in model parameters and prediction. This study foc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,477 Views
16 Pages

Assessment and Duration of the Surface Subsidence after the End of Mining Operations

  • Mateusz Dudek,
  • Anton Sroka,
  • Krzysztof Tajduś,
  • Rafał Misa and
  • Dawid Mrocheń

19 November 2022

The change in the European Union’s policy related to the energy transformation of Europe and the departure from fossil energy resources may contribute to the accelerated closure of many coal mines. Therefore, it is necessary to solve the proble...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,305 Views
15 Pages

11 October 2023

Land subsidence is a prevalent geological issue that poses significant challenges to construction projects. Consequently, the accurate prediction of land subsidence has emerged as a focal point of research among scholars and experts. Traditional math...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,083 Views
21 Pages

The Monitoring and Analysis of Land Subsidence in Kunming (China) Supported by Time Series InSAR

  • Bo Xiao,
  • Junsan Zhao,
  • Dongsheng Li,
  • Zhenfeng Zhao,
  • Wenfei Xi and
  • Dingyi Zhou

29 September 2022

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,475 Views
29 Pages

20 February 2025

Underground coal mining in expansive basins has led to land subsidence, posing significant threats to the aboveground structures and the environment. Addressing this issue is paramount, necessitating accurate and reliable prediction methods. This stu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,812 Views
27 Pages

15 September 2025

Accurate ground deformation monitoring with interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) is often hindered by tropospheric delays caused by atmospheric pressure, temperature, and water vapor variations. While models such as ERA5 (European Centre...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
3,363 Views
11 Pages

Surface Deformations Caused by the Convergence of Large Underground Gas Storage Facilities

  • Krzysztof Tajduś,
  • Anton Sroka,
  • Rafał Misa,
  • Antoni Tajduś and
  • Stefan Meyer

12 January 2021

The article presents a method of forecasting the deformation of the land surface over large fields of underground gas storage facilities located in salt caverns. The solution allows for taking into account many parameters characterising the operation...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,259 Views
22 Pages

24 July 2024

Le’an Town, located in the southwest of Qingchuan County, Guangyuan City, Sichuan Province, boasts a unique geographical position. The town’s terrain is complex, and its geological environment is fragile. Multiple phases of tectonic movem...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,203 Views
17 Pages

8 October 2024

With economic development and coal resource exploitation, the area of mined-out zones is expanding continuously. The traditional waste disposal methods no longer meet the current demands, making it urgent to evaluate and reuse the surface stability o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,880 Views
19 Pages

4 November 2022

A coastal erosion risk assessment was framed as the basis for the intervention of coastal adaptation strategies under time-variant scenarios. The framework was devised to assess the influence of coastal erosion on coastal defense, the coastal inundat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
80 Citations
6,723 Views
25 Pages

UAV Applications for Determination of Land Deformations Caused by Underground Mining

  • Paweł Ćwiąkała,
  • Wojciech Gruszczyński,
  • Tomasz Stoch,
  • Edyta Puniach,
  • Dawid Mrocheń,
  • Wojciech Matwij,
  • Karolina Matwij,
  • Michał Nędzka,
  • Paweł Sopata and
  • Artur Wójcik

28 May 2020

This article presents a case study that demonstrates the applicability of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) photogrammetric data to land surface deformation monitoring in areas affected by underground mining. The results presented include data from two o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
44 Citations
7,036 Views
30 Pages

Imaging Multi-Age Construction Settlement Behaviour by Advanced SAR Interferometry

  • Francesca Bozzano,
  • Carlo Esposito,
  • Paolo Mazzanti,
  • Mauro Patti and
  • Stefano Scancella

18 July 2018

This paper focuses on the application of Advanced Satellite Synthetic Aperture Radar Interferometry (A-DInSAR) to subsidence-related issues, with particular reference to ground settlements due to external loads. Beyond the stratigraphic setting and t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
8,378 Views
16 Pages

28 April 2017

Global warming induces temperature variations and sea level changes for a long period of time. Many coastal cities around the world have experienced the harmful consequences of sea level changes and temperature variations. The city of Shanghai in Chi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,685 Views
51 Pages

28 February 2024

This study extensively explores the impact of climate change on meteorological droughts within metropolises in Iran. Focused on Tehran, Mashhad, Isfahan, Karaj, Shiraz, and Tabriz, this research employed CMIP6 climate models under varying climate cha...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
6,972 Views
28 Pages

Changes of Chinese Coastal Regions Induced by Land Reclamation as Revealed through TanDEM-X DEM and InSAR Analyses

  • Maochuan Tang,
  • Qing Zhao,
  • Antonio Pepe,
  • Adam Thomas Devlin,
  • Francesco Falabella,
  • Chengfang Yao and
  • Zhengjie Li

28 January 2022

Chinese coastal topography has changed significantly over the last two decades due to human actions such as the development of extensive land reclamation projects. Newly-reclaimed lands typically have low elevations (<10 m) and often experience se...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,941 Views
18 Pages

5 March 2024

An extreme high-temperature event occurred in North China on 22 June 2023, with the maximum temperature reaching 41.8 °C. The high-temperature centers preferentially occurred at the foothills of the Taihang and Yanshan Mountains, indicating an im...

  • Article
  • Open Access
551 Views
20 Pages

RMCMamba: A Multi-Factor High-Speed Railway Bridge Pier Settlement Prediction Method Based on RevIN and MARSHead

  • Junjie Liu,
  • Xunqiang Gong,
  • Qi Liang,
  • Zhiping Chen,
  • Tieding Lu,
  • Rui Zhang and
  • Wenfei Mao

30 October 2025

The precise prediction of high-speed railway bridge pier settlement plays a crucial role in construction, maintenance, and long-term operation; however, current mainstream prediction methods mostly rely on independent analyses based on traditional or...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,651 Views
22 Pages

Rising waters and land subsidence are increasing relative sea levels in western and northern Alaska, forcing communities to relocate or armor in place. To appropriately plan and make equitable decisions, there is a need to forecast the risk of flood...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
7,000 Views
16 Pages

3 October 2017

In this paper, we provide a Lagrangian analysis of the anomalies in the moisture transport during two important drought events (1989/1990 and 2003) configured over the Danube River Basin (DRB) region. Firstly, we identified the drought episodes that...

  • Article
  • Open Access
260 Views
20 Pages

Developing Integrated Supersites to Advance the Understanding of Saltwater Intrusion in the Coastal Plain Between the Brenta and Adige Rivers, Italy

  • Luigi Tosi,
  • Marta Cosma,
  • Pablo Agustín Yaciuk,
  • Iva Aljinović,
  • Andrea Artuso,
  • Jadran Čarija,
  • Cristina Da Lio,
  • Lorenzo Frison,
  • Veljko Srzić and
  • Fabio Tateo
  • + 1 author

8 December 2025

Saltwater intrusion increasingly jeopardizes groundwater in low-lying coastal plains worldwide, where the combined effects of sea-level rise, land subsidence, and hydraulic regulation further exacerbate aquifer vulnerability and threaten the long-ter...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
6,481 Views
38 Pages

10 June 2020

This paper provides a chronology and overview of events and policy initiatives aimed at addressing irrigation sustainability issues in the San Joaquin River Basin (SJRB) of California. Although the SJRB was selected in this case study, many of the sa...