Risk of Ground Movement in Faridabad, India – Investigated using Remote Sensing and In-Situ Data

Author(s):  
Shagun Garg ◽  
Vamshi Karanam ◽  
Mahdi Motagh ◽  
Indu Jayaluxmi

<p>Land surface elevation changes can cause damage to infrastructure and other resources; thus, its monitoring is crucial for the safety and economics of the city. Long-term excessive extraction of underground water is one of the factors that causes ground to sink. Faridabad, the industrial hub of Haryana, a state in north India is staring a severe water crisis in the near future and has already been declared as a dark zone with regard to groundwater resources. At many places, the underground water table has dropped more than 150m. The plummeting groundwater levels and the geology of this region make it prone to subsidence.</p><p>Continuous monitoring of land surface elevations using traditional surveying techniques can be time-consuming and labor-intensive. Several studies have shown the potential of remote sensing techniques in monitoring the changes in topography to an mm level accuracy. In this study, we used the elevation change map (derived using 200+ sentinel -1 images), subsidence gradient, groundwater in-situ data, population, population density, land cover, and lithology. These information were then processed and analyzed in a geographical information system to perform a hazard vulnerability and risk assessment. The final risk map was classified into three different classes viz high, medium, and low risk pertaining to ground movement.</p><p>The results indicate that the high-risk zone covers an area of more than 2.5 square kilometers. New Industrial Town (NIT) in Faridabad with an estimated population of more than 1.5 million, is found to be at high risk of ground movement. Groundwater levels in this area are currently depleting by more than 5m/year. Some other areas which are under high risk are the Dabua colony, Sanjay Gandhi Memorial Nagar, and Gandhi colony. All these regions have a high population density and demand urgent government attention.</p>

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Sobiech-Wolf ◽  
Tobias Ullmann ◽  
Wolfgang Dierking

<p>Satellite remote sensing as well as in-situ measurements are common tools to monitor the state of Arctic environments. However, remote sensing products often lack sufficient temporal and/or spatial resolution, and in-situ measurements can only describe the environmental conditions on a very limited spatial scale. Therefore, we conducted an air-borne campaign to connect the detailed in-situ data with poor spatial coverage to coarse satellite images. The SMART campaign is part of the ongoing project „Characterization of Polar Permafrost Landscapes by Means of Multi-Temporal and Multi-Scale Remote Sensing, and In-Situ Measurements“, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG).  The focus of the project is to close the gap between in-situ measurements and space-borne images in polar permafrost landscapes. The airborne campaign SMART was conducted in late summer 2018 in north-west Canada, focussing on the Mackenzie-Delta region, which is underlain by permafrost and rarely inhabited. The land cover is either dominated by open Tundra landscapes or by boreal forests. The Polar-5 research-aircraft from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Center for Polar and Marine Research, Germany, was equipped with a ground penetrating radar, a hyperspectral camara, a laserscanner, and an infrared temperature sensor amongst others. In parallel to the airborne acquisition, a team collected in-situ data on ground, including manual active layer depth measurements, geophysical surveying using 2D Electric Resistivity Tomography (ERT), GPR, and mapping of additional land cover properties. The database was completed by a variety of satellite data from different platforms, e.g. MODIS, Landsat, TerraSAR-X and Sentinel-1.  As part of the project, we analysed the performance of MODIS Land surfaces temperature products compared to our air-borne infrared measurements and evaluated, how long the land surface temperatures of this Arctic environment can be considered as stable. It turned out that the MODIS data differ up to 2°C from the air-borne measurements. If this is due to the spatial difference of the measurements or a result of data processing of the MODIS LST products is part of ongoing analysis.</p>


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Lanconelli ◽  
Fabrizio Cappucci ◽  
Bernardo Mota ◽  
Nadine Gobron ◽  
Amelie Driemel ◽  
...  

<div> <p>Nowadays, an increasingly amount of remote sensing and in-situ data are extending over decades. They contribute to increase the relevance of long-term studies aimed to deduce the mechanisms underlying the climate change dynamics. The aim of this study is to investigate the coherence between trends of different long-term climate related variables including the surface albedo (A) and land surface temperature (LST) as obtained by remote sensing platforms, models and in-situ observations. </p> </div><div> <p>Directional-hemispherical and bi-hemispherical broadband surface reflectances as derived from MODIS-MCD43 (v006) and MISR, and the analogous products of the Copernicus Global Land (CGLS) and C3S services derived from SPOT-VEGETATION, PROBA-V and AVHRR (v0 and v1), have been harmonized and, together with the ECMWF ERA-5 model, assessed with respect ground data taken over polar areas, over a temporal window spanning the last 20 years.  </p> </div><div> <p>The benchmark was established using in-situ measurements provided from the Baseline Surface Radiation Network (BSRN) over four Arctic and four Antarctic sites. The 1-minute resolution datasets of broadband upwelling and down-welling radiation, have been reduced to directional- and bi-hemispherical reflectances, with the same time scale of satellite products (1-day, 10-days, monthly).  </p> </div><div> <p>A similar approach was used to investigate the fitness for purpose of Land Surface Temperature as derived by MODIS (MOD11), ECMWF ERA-5, with respect to the brightness temperature derived using BSRN measurements over the longwave band.  </p> </div><div> <p>The entire temporal series are decomposed into seasonal and residual components, and then the presence of monotonic significant trends are assessed using the non-parametric Kendall test. Preliminary results shown a strong correlation between negative albedo trends and positive LST trends, especially in arctic regions. </p> </div>


2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 237-245
Author(s):  
Muhammad Isa ◽  
Dwiky Pobri Cesarian ◽  
Ismail Ahmad Abir ◽  
Elin Yusibani ◽  
Muhammad Syukri Surbakti ◽  
...  

Remote sensing makes it possible to map potential geothermal site for a large area effectively using thermal infrared. The purpose of the present research is to overlay ground temperature, resistivity and satellite retrieved temperature in identifying geothermal potential site in Jaboi, Sabang-Indonesia. The data of acquisition of the DEM imagery was January 3rd, 2009 and the Landsat 8 imagery is July 18th, 2017. The satellite data were applied to extract the land surface temperature and land classification across. Two supporting data in situ were used to validate the results from remote sensing. First dataset was ground temperature measurements with total 114 points and second dataset was vertical electrical sounding (VES) with total of 51 points. Satellite, VES and ground temperature data were processed and analysed using the Envi 5.3, PCI Geomatica 2016 and ArcMap 10.4. The results from each data were integrated to produce a map shows geothermal potential. Its integration produced four areas which were considered to have high geothermal potential. However, these areas vary in term of the clustering of the features of interest, for example lineament and drainage density of the area, high temperature in the surface area, fault existence and low resistivity subsurface. All the features must take into consideration to rank potential area which has higher potential. Finally, a map of geothermal potential across were successfully created as an insight for future reference. ©2020. CBIORE-IJRED. All rights reserved


2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (8) ◽  
pp. 1516
Author(s):  
Boyang Li ◽  
Yaokui Cui ◽  
Xiaozhuang Geng ◽  
Huan Li

Evapotranspiration (ET) of soil-vegetation system is the main process of the water and energy exchange between the atmosphere and the land surface. Spatio-temporal continuous ET is vitally important to agriculture and ecological applications. Surface temperature and vegetation index (Ts-VI) triangle ET model based on remote sensing land surface temperature (LST) is widely used to monitor the land surface ET. However, a large number of missing data caused by the presence of clouds always reduces the availability of the main parameter LST, thus making the remote sensing-based ET estimation unavailable. In this paper, a method to improve the availability of ET estimates from Ts-VI model is proposed. Firstly, continuous LST product of the time series is obtained using a reconstruction algorithm, and then, the reconstructed LST is applied to the estimate ET using the Ts-VI model. The validation in the Heihe River Basin from 2009 to 2011 showed that the availability of ET estimates is improved from 25 days per year (d/yr) to 141 d/yr. Compared with the in situ data, a very good performance of the estimated ET is found with RMSE 1.23 mm/day and R2 0.6257 at point scale and RMSE 0.32 mm/day and R2 0.8556 at regional scale. This will improve the understanding of the water and energy exchange between the atmosphere and the land surface, especially under cloudy conditions.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vamshi Karanam ◽  
Shagun Garg ◽  
Mahdi Motagh ◽  
Kamal Jain

<p>Coal fires, land subsidence, roof collapse, and other life-threatening risks are a predictable phenomenon for the mineworkers and the neighbourhood population in coalfields. Jharia Coalfields in India are suffered heavily from land subsidence and coal fires for over a century. In addition to the loss of precious coal reserves, this has led to severe damage to the environment, livelihood, transportation, and precious lives.</p><p>Such incidents highlight the dire need for a well-defined methodology for risk analysis for the coalfield. In this study, we regenerated a Land Use Land Cover map prepared using Indian Remote Sensing satellite imagery and ground survey. Persistent Scatterer Interferometry analysis using Sentinel -1 images was carried out to study the land subsidence phenomenon between Nov 2018 and Apr 2019. For the same study period, coal fire zones were identified with Landsat – 8 thermal band imagery. Integration of coal fire maps, subsidence velocity maps, and land use maps was further implemented in a geographical information background environment to extract the high-risk zones. These high-risk areas include residential areas, railways, and mining sites, requiring immediate attention.</p><p>The results show that the coal mines are affected by subsidence of up to 20 cm/yr and a temperature anomaly of nearly 20<sup>o</sup>C is noticed. A high-risk zone of almost 18 sq. km. was demarcated with Kusunda, Gaslitand, and West Mudidih collieries being the most critically affected zones in the Coal mines. The study demonstrates the potential to combine data from multiple satellite sensors to build a safer ecosystem around the coal mines.  </p>


2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 416 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cheng Yang ◽  
Tonghua Wu ◽  
Jiemin Wang ◽  
Jimin Yao ◽  
Ren Li ◽  
...  

The ground surface soil heat flux (G0) quantifies the energy transfer between the atmosphere and the ground through the land surface. However; it is difficult to obtain the spatial distribution of G0 in permafrost regions because of the limitation of in situ observation and complication of ground surface conditions. This study aims at developing an improved G0 parameterization scheme applicable to permafrost regions of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau under clear-sky conditions. We validated several existing remote sensing-based models to estimate G0 by analyzing in situ measurement data. Based on the validation of previous models on G0; we added the solar time angle to the G0 parameterization scheme; which considered the phase difference problem. The maximum values of RMSE and MAE between “measured G0” and simulated G0 using the improved parameterization scheme and in situ data were calculated to be 6.102 W/m2 and 5.382 W/m2; respectively. When the error of the remotely sensed land surface temperature is less than 1 K and the surface albedo measured is less than 0.02; the accuracy of estimates based on remote sensing data for G0 will be less than 5%. MODIS data (surface reflectance; land surface temperature; and emissivity) were used to calculate G0 in a 10 x 10 km region around Tanggula site; which is located in the continuous permafrost region with long-term records of meteorological and permafrost parameters. The results obtained by the improved scheme and MODIS data were consistent with the observation. This study enhances our understanding of the impacts of climate change on the ground thermal regime of permafrost and the land surface processes between atmosphere and ground surface in cold regions.


Irriga ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 585-598
Author(s):  
Pedro Henrique Jandreice Magnoni ◽  
Cesar De Oliveira Ferreira Silva ◽  
Rodrigo Lilla Manzione

SENSORIAMENTO REMOTO APLICADO AO MANEJO DA IRRIGAÇÃO EM ÁREAS COM ESCASSEZ DE DADOS: ESTUDO DE CASO EM PIVÔ CENTRAL EM ITATINGA-SP*     PEDRO HENRIQUE JANDREICE MAGNONI1; CÉSAR DE OLIVEIRA FERREIRA SILVA1 E RODRIGO LILLA MANZIONE2   1 Departamento de Engenharia Rural, Faculdade de Ciências Agronômicas, Universidade Estadual Paulista", Avenida Universitária, n° 3780, Altos do Paraíso, 18610-034, Botucatu, São Paulo, Brasil,  [email protected]; [email protected]. 2 Departamento de Engenharia de Biossistemas, Faculdade de Ciências e Engenharia, Universidade Estadual Paulista “Júlio de Mesquita Filho”, Rua Domingos da Costa Lopes, 780, CEP 17602496, Tupã – SP, Brasil. E-mail: [email protected]. *Este artigo é proveniente das dissertações de mestrado dos dois primeiros autores.     1 RESUMO   Ferramentas baseadas em sensoriamento remoto possibilitam o monitoramento do balanço hídrico da água em diferentes resoluções espaciais e temporais. Ainda assim, modelos que exigem dados in-situ impossibilitam sua aplicação em áreas com escassez de dados. No sentido de lidar com esse desafio, o presente trabalho apresenta uma abordagem de escolha do momento de irrigar, pelo balanço hídrico da água no solo, baseada em estimativa da evapotranspiração real (ETA) obtida com o uso conjunto de imagens multiespectrais do sensor MSI/SENTINEL-2 e dados de uma estação meteorológica pública. A área de estudo foi um pivô central localizado no munícipio de Itatinga-SP. Para a tomada de decisão do momento de irrigar, com base em um manejo por lâmina de irrigação fixa, foi feita a interpolação da fração evapotranspirativa entre os dias com imagens disponíveis para obter a ETA nos dias sem imagens por meio do seu produto com a evapotranspiração de referência. Essa abordagem captou variações climáticas essenciais para a estimativa do balanço hídrico em dias sem imagem. Destaca-se nessa aplicação conjunta sua capacidade de ser realizada sem necessitar de parâmetros específicos da cultura, do microclima ou do relevo, tornando-se interessante para regiões com escassez de dados.   Palavras-chave:  evapotranspiração, momento de irrigar, agriwater.     MAGNONI, P. H. J.; SILVA, C. O. F.; MANZIONE, R. L. REMOTE SENSING APPLIED TO IRRIGATION MANAGEMENT IN AREAS WITH LACK OF DATA: A CASE STUDY IN A CENTRAL PIVOT IN ITATINGA-SP     2 ABSTRACT   Remote sensing-based tools allow the monitoring of water budgets over different spatial and temporal resolutions. Nevertheless, some models require in situ data, preventing their application in areas with a lack of data. To address this challenge, this work presents an approach for irrigation scheduling, based on soil water budget estimation using actual evapotranspiration (ETA) obtained using MSI/SENTINEL-2 multispectral images and data from a public meteorological station. The study area consisted of a central pivot located in the municipality of Itatinga-SP, Brazil. For decision-making of irrigation scheduling, considering a fixed irrigation rate, the evapotranspiration fraction was interpolated between the days with available images to obtain the ETA on the days without images using its product with the reference evapotranspiration. This approach captured essential climate variations for estimating the water budget on non-image days. Noteworthy in this joint application is its suitability to be performed not requiring crop-, microclimate- or relief-specific parameters, making it useful for regions with a lack of data.   Keywords: evapotranspiration, irrigation scheduling, agriwater.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alejandro Corbea-Pérez ◽  
Gonçalo Vieira ◽  
Carmen Recondo ◽  
Joana Baptista ◽  
Javier F.Calleja ◽  
...  

<p>Land surface temperature is an important factor for permafrost modelling as well as for understanding the dynamics of Antarctic terrestrial ecosystems (Bockheim et al. 2008). In the South Shetland Islands the distribution of permafrost is complex (Vieira et al. 2010) and the use of remote sensing data is essential since the installation and maintenance of an extensive network of ground-based stations are impossible. Therefore, it is important to evaluate the applicability of satellites and sensors by comparing data with in-situ observations. In this work, we present the results from the analysis of land surface temperatures from Barton Peninsula, an ice-free area in King George Island (South Shetlands). We have studied the period from March 1, 2019 to January 31, 2020 using data from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) Land Surface Temperature (LST) and in-situ data from 6 ground temperature loggers. MOD11A1 and MYD11A1 products, from TERRA and AQUA satellites, respectively, were used, following the application of MODIS quality filters. Given the scarce number of high-quality data as defined by MODIS, all average LST with error ≤ 2K were included. Dates with surface temperature below -20ºC, which are rare in the study area, and dates when the difference between MODIS and in-situ data exceeded 10ºC were also examined. In both cases, those days on which MOD09GA/MYD09GA products showed cloud cover were eliminated. Eight in-situ ground temperature measurements per day were available, from which the one nearest to the time of satellite overpass was selected for comparison with MODIS-LST. The results obtained show a better correlation with daytime data than with nighttime data. Specifically, the best results are obtained with daytime data from AQUA (R<sup>2</sup> between 0.55 and 0.81). With daytime data, correlation between MODIS-LST and in-situ data was verified with relative humidity (RH) values provided by King Sejong weather station, located in the study area. When RH is lower, the correlation between LST and in-situ data improves: we obtained correlation coefficients between 0.6 - 0.7 for TERRA data and 0.8 - 0.9 for AQUA data with RH values lower than 80%. The results suggest that MODIS can be used for temperature estimation in the ice-free areas of the Maritime Antarctic.</p><p>References:</p><p>Bockheim, J. G., Campbell, I. B., Guglielmin, M., and López- Martınez, J.: Distribution of permafrost types and buried ice in ice free areas of Antarctica, in: 9th International Conference on Permafrost, 28 June–3 July 2008, Proceedings, University of Alaska Press, Fairbanks, USA, 2008, 125–130.</p><p>Vieira, G.; Bockheim, J.; Guglielmin, M.; Balks, M.; Abramov, A. A.; Boelhouwers, J.; Cannone, N.; Ganzert, L.; Gilichinsky, D. A.; Goryachkin, S.; López-Martínez, J.; Meiklejohn, I.; Raffi, R.; Ramos, M.; Schaefer, C.; Serrano, E.; Simas, F.; Sletten, R.; Wagner, D. Thermal State of Permafrost and Active-layer Monitoring in the Antarctic: Advances During the International Polar Year 2007-2009. Permafr. Periglac. Process. 2010, 21, 182–197.</p><p> </p><p>Acknowledgements</p><p>This work was made possible by an internship at the IGOT, University of Lisbon, Portugal, funded by the Principality of Asturias (code EB20-16).</p><p> </p>


Sensors ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (16) ◽  
pp. 3609 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kyryliuk ◽  
Kratzer

In this study, the Level-2 products of the Ocean and Land Colour Instrument (OLCI) data on Sentinel-3A are derived using the Case-2 Regional CoastColour (C2RCC) processor for the SentiNel Application Platform (SNAP) whilst adjusting the specific scatter of Total Suspended Matter (TSM) for the Baltic Sea in order to improve TSM retrieval. The remote sensing product “kd_z90max” (i.e., the depth of the water column from which 90% of the water-leaving irradiance are derived) from C2RCC-SNAP showed a good correlation with in situ Secchi depth (SD). Additionally, a regional in-water algorithm was applied to derive SD from the attenuation coefficient Kd(489) using a local algorithm. Furthermore, a regional in-water relationship between particle scatter and bench turbidity was applied to generate turbidity from the remote sensing product “iop_bpart” (i.e., the scattering coefficient of marine particles at 443 nm). The spectral shape of the remote sensing reflectance (Rrs) data extracted from match-up stations was evaluated against reflectance data measured in situ by a tethered Attenuation Coefficient Sensor (TACCS) radiometer. The L2 products were evaluated against in situ data from several dedicated validation campaigns (2016–2018) in the NW Baltic proper. All derived L2 in-water products were statistically compared to in situ data and the results were also compared to results for MERIS validation from the literature and the current S3 Level-2 Water (L2W) standard processor from EUMETSAT. The Chl-a product showed a substantial improvement (MNB 21%, RMSE 88%, APD 96%, n = 27) compared to concentrations derived from the Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MERIS), with a strong underestimation of higher values. TSM performed within an error comparable to MERIS data with a mean normalized bias (MNB) 25%, root-mean square error (RMSE) 73%, average absolute percentage difference (APD) 63% n = 23). Coloured Dissolved Organic Matter (CDOM) absorption retrieval has also improved substantially when using the product “iop_adg” (i.e., the sum of organic detritus and Gelbstoff absorption at 443 nm) as a proxy (MNB 8%, RMSE 56%, APD 54%, n = 18). The local SD (MNB 6%, RMSE 62%, APD 60%, n = 35) and turbidity (MNB 3%, RMSE 35%, APD 34%, n = 29) algorithms showed very good agreement with in situ data. We recommend the use of the SNAP C2RCC with regionally adjusted TSM-specific scatter for water product retrieval as well as the regional turbidity algorithm for Baltic Sea monitoring. Besides documenting the evaluation of the C2RCC processor, this paper may also act as a handbook on the validation of Ocean Colour data.


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