Journal
REMOTE SENSING
Volume 11, Issue 12, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/rs11121466
Keywords
ground settlement; MT-InSAR; quaternary sediment thickness; groundwater; runways
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Funding
- Beijing Postdoctoral Research Foundation
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [41771455/D010702, 4140010982/D010702]
- Beijing Municipal Natural Science Foundation [8182013]
- Beijing Youth Top Talent Project
- program of Beijing Scholars
- National Double-Class Construction of University Projects
- Natural Science Foundation of Tianjin City [16JCZDJC40400]
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Land subsidence is a global environmental geological hazard caused by natural or human activities. The high spatial resolution and continuous time coverage of interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) time series analysis techniques provide data and a basis for the development of methods for the investigation and evolution mechanism study of regional land subsidence. Beijing, the capital city of China, has suffered from land subsidence for decades since it was first recorded in the 1950s. It was reported that uneven ground subsidence and fractures have seriously affected the normal operation of the Beijing Capital International Airport (BCIA) in recent years before the overhaul of the middle runway in April 2017. In this study, InSAR time series analysis was successfully used to detect the uneven local subsidence and ground fissure activity that has been gradually increasing in BCIA since 2010. A multi-temporal InSAR (MT-InSAR) technique was performed on 63 TerraSAR-X/TanDem-X (TSX/TDX) images acquired between 2010 and 2017, then deformation rate maps and time series for the airport area were generated. Comparisons of deformation rate and displacement time series from InSAR and ground-leveling were carried out in order to evaluate the accuracy of the InSAR-derived measurements. After an integrated analysis of the distribution characteristics of land subsidence, previous research results, and geological data was carried out, we found and located an active ground fissure. Then main cause of the ground fissures was preliminarily discussed. Finally, it can be conducted that InSAR technology can be used to identify and monitor geological processes, such as land subsidence and ground fissure activities, and can provide a scientific approach to better explore and study the cause and formation mechanism of regional subsidence and ground fissures.
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