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Monitoring ground surface deformation over the North China Plain using coherent ALOS PALSAR differential interferograms

Journal

JOURNAL OF GEODESY
Volume 87, Issue 3, Pages 253-265

Publisher

SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00190-012-0595-y

Keywords

Radar interferometry; Interferogram stacking techniques; Ground displacement; Deformation time-series; North China Plain

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  1. Australian Department of Resources, Energy and Tourism
  2. Australian Research Council
  3. Ministry of Science and Technology of China

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North China Plain (Huabei Plain) is one of the most densely populated regions on earth. Due to excessive underground water extraction, the North China Plain has been experiencing severe ground deformation over the last three decades. Therefore, for the purpose of hazard mitigation, it is necessary to monitor the ground displacement occurred in this region. As an extension of the differential radar interferometry (DInSAR) technique, advanced DInSAR techniques involving multiple images have demonstrated the potential to effectively map ground displacement. Such techniques are able to measure the temporal evolution of ground deformation with millimetre-level accuracy by using a stack of differential interferograms. In this study, the ALOS PALSAR data acquired over the North China Plain, which cover an area of approximately 16,000 km, were processed based on the concept of advanced DInSAR techniques. Because of the large size of the PALSAR images, a targeted processing strategy was designed. This strategy is able to reduce required disk storage space and I/O operations, leading to the improvement of the computational efficiency. The resulting mean deformation velocity map demonstrates that a large portion of the area covered by the data was affected by various degrees of ground deformation between January 2007 and April 2010. The ground deformation is mostly distributed in rural areas, while the downtown areas are generally stable.

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