Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) interferometry is a technique that provides high-resolution measurements of the ground displacement associated with various geophysical processes. To investigate the land-surface deformation in Karamay, a typical oil-pr...
Due to earthquakes and large-scale exploitation of oil, gas, groundwater, and coal energy, large-scope surface deformation has occurred in Songyuan City, Jilin Province, China, and it is posing a serious threat to sustainable development, including u...
The spatio-temporal random effect (STRE) model, a type of spatio-temporal Kalman filter model, can be used for the fusion of the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) and Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) data to generate high spat...
Remote-sensing land surface deformation (LSD) is a powerful and effective approach for investigating regional alpine permafrost variations. However, alpine permafrost is often distributed in areas characterized by earthquakes, and the LSD of alpine p...
Global coastal reclamation areas face significant land subsidence, threatening infrastructure and sustainable development. China’s large-scale projects show particularly severe subsidence. For example, Tianjin’s Binhai New Area contains 4...
This article analyses and evaluates the model used by the Jastrzebie Coal Company in Poland to forecast the values of continuous deformations of land surfaces caused by underground mining. Particular attention is paid to the values of terrain inclina...
Low-land permafrost areas are subject to intense freeze-thaw cycles and characterized by remarkable surface displacement. We used Sentinel-1 SAR interferometry (InSAR) in order to analyse the summer surface displacement over four spots in the Arctic...
Land surface deformation, including subsidence and uplift, has significant impacts on human life and the natural environment. In recent years, the city of Wuxi, China has experienced large-scale surface deformation following the implementation of a g...
Underground mining can produce subsidence phenomena, especially if orebodies are surficial or occur in soft rocks. In some countries, illegal mining is a big problem for environmental, social and economic reasons. However, when unauthorized excavatio...
While surface deformations and their impact on buildings have been observed in the city of Lanzhou, it is difficult to find studies of surface deformation and the influential factors in the recent decades. This study was designed to detect the spatia...
Yan’an new district (YND) is one of the largest civil engineering projects for land creation in Loess Plateau, of which the amount of earthwork exceeds 600 million m3, to create 78.5 km2 of flat land. Such mega-scale engineering activities and...
Seismic phenomena threaten land-based buildings, structures, and infrastructure and can transform land topography. There are two basic types of seismic phenomena, namely, tectonic and anthropogenic, which differ mainly in epicenter depth, surface imp...
During an earthquake, crustal deformation, fluid flow, and temperature variation are coupled; however, earthquake-related land surface temperature (LST) variations remain unclear. To determine whether post-seismic fluid migration can cause changes in...
Long-term settlement monitoring of infrastructure built in soft clay areas is of great importance. When using InSAR technology for soft clay settlement monitoring, deformation modeling is a key process. In most InSAR deformation modeling, each compon...
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...
Based on 143 Sentinel-1A images from January 2020 to December 2022, this study used SBAS-InSAR technology to monitor the surface deformation of the tailings pond and analyzed and predicted the surface deformation laws in southeast Tibet. Overall, the...
Buildings are vulnerable to collapse incidents. We adopt a workflow to detect unusual vertical surface motions before building collapses based on PS-InSAR time series analysis and spatiotemporal data mining techniques. Sentinel-1 ascending and descen...
Underground coal exploitation often results in land-surface subsidence, the rate of which depends on geological characteristics, the mechanical properties of the rocks, and the applied extraction technology. Since mining-related subsidence is charact...
For approximately 100 years, the Houston region has been adversely impacted by land subsidence associated with excessive groundwater withdrawals. The rapidly growing population in the Houston region means the ongoing subsidence must be vigilantly mon...
In order to alleviate the conflict between populations and land resource, Tianjin adopted multi-phase reclamation projects to the formed large-scale artificial reclamation land. The reclamation areas, however, are prone to subsidence, which poses a s...
Since the Wenchuan earthquake in 2008, Old Beichuan County-town has experienced significant subsidence due to the disruption of the geological environment and the concurrent increase in precipitation. The ongoing land surface deformation poses a thre...
Land deformation has become a crucial threat in recent decades, caused by various natural and anthropogenic activities in the environment. The seismic land dynamics, landslides activities, heavy rainfall resulting in flood events, and subsurface aqui...
Over the past two decades, the Leizhou Peninsula has suffered from many geological hazards and great property losses caused by land subsidence. However, the absence of a deformation map of the whole peninsula has impeded the government in making the...
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...
Land surface deformation in metropolitan areas, which can cause varying degrees of hazard to both human lives and to properties, has been documented for decades in cities worldwide. Xuzhou, is one of the most important energy and industrial bases in...
With the rapid development of social economy in China, the contradiction between the wide distribution of abandoned goaf and the shortage of land for engineering construction is becoming increasingly prominent. The effective utilization of coal minin...
The Xi’an region of China has been suffering from groundwater depletion, ground fissure hazards, and surface subsidence for a long time. Due to the complex tectonics and frequent human and natural activities, land deformation in the region is a...
Excessive exploitation of the groundwater has resulted in obvious three-dimensional (3D) deformation features on the surface of the Beijing Plain. This paper, by combining Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) and Global Positioning System...
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...
Understanding the time-lagged response of land subsidence to groundwater level fluctuations and subsurface strain variations is crucial for uncovering its underlying mechanisms and enhancing disaster early warning capabilities. This study focuses on...
Rapid global warming is catalyzing widespread permafrost degradation in the Arctic, leading to destructive land-surface subsidence that destabilizes and deforms the ground. Consequently, human-built infrastructure constructed upon permafrost is curre...
In recent years, land subsidence has become a crucial factor affecting urban safety and sustainable development, especially in Wan’an Town. To accurately monitor and analyze the land subsidence in Wan’an Town, this study uses the PS-InSAR...
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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...
Extreme precipitation is one of the most prevalent meteorological disasters occurring today. Its occurrence not only causes significant social and economic losses but also indirectly affects surface deformation, creating safety hazards for diverse gr...
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...
Southern California, USA, has been suffering severe surface deformation due to its active crustal movement under the north–south compression of the Pacific Plate and North American Plate. Meanwhile, affected by groundwater extraction and rechar...
In recent years, the enormous losses caused by urban surface deformation have received more and more attention. Traditional geodetic techniques are point-based measurements, which have limitations in using traditional geodetic techniques to detect an...
The ancient city of Xi’an, China, has been suffering severe land subsidence and ground fissure hazards since the 1960s, mainly due to the over-withdrawal of groundwater and large-scale urban construction. This has threatened and will continue t...
The Nile River stretches from south to north throughout the Nile River Basin (NRB) in Northeast Africa. Ethiopia, where the Blue Nile originates, has begun the construction of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), which will be used to generate...
Surface deformation poses significant risks to urban infrastructure, agriculture, and the environment in many regions worldwide, including Rwanda and the neighboring areas. This study focuses on surface deformation mapping and time series analysis in...
Leveraging multi-source remote sensing datasets and dynamic groundwater monitoring well observations, this study explores the multiscale spatiotemporal linkages of groundwater storage changes and land deformation in North China Plain (NCP) after the...
Among different sets of constraints and hazards that have to be considered in the management of cities and land use, land surface subsidence is one of the important issues that can lead to many problems, and its economic consequences cannot be ignore...
A mega project, Mountain Excavation and City Construction (MECC), was launched in the hilly and gully region of the Chinese Loess Plateau in 2012, in order to address the shortage of available land and create new flat land for urban construction. How...
Urban land subsidence threatens the safety of urban buildings and people’s lives. The time series interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) technology can provide us with large-area, high-resolution, and high-precision ground deformation...
Interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) time series deformation monitoring plays an important role in revealing historical displacement of the Earth’s surface. Xi’an, China, has suffered from severe land subsidence along with gro...
The Arctic is the fastest-warming region on Earth, exhibiting a pronounced “amplifying effect”, which has triggered widespread permafrost thaw and increased the risk of surface deformation. In the Arctic coastal lowlands, permafrost is al...
Karstic terrains are usually dominated by aquifer systems and/or underground cavities. Overexploitation of groundwater in such areas often induces land subsidence and sometimes causes sinkholes. The Cheria basin in Algeria suffers from severe land su...
This study examines the three-dimensional layered air temperature variations associated with the Hualian M6.9 earthquake, which occurred on 18 September 2022, using data from the National Center for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) and extracting back...
The excessive extraction and recharge of groundwater lead to long-time seasonal land subsidence in Los Angeles, USA, and especially in the Santa Ana basin. The rate of land subsidence in the Santa Ana basin has been rising, which could pose a danger...
Coastal areas are highly dynamic regions where surface deformation due to natural and anthropogenic activities poses significant challenges. Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) interferometry techniques, such as Persistent Scatterer Interferometry (PSInSA...
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