scholarly journals Advanced interpretation of land subsidence by validating multi-interferometric SAR data: the case study of the Anthemountas basin (northern Greece)

2013 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 1213-1256 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Raspini ◽  
C. Loupasakis ◽  
D. Rozos ◽  
S. Moretti
Keyword(s):  
Land Subsidence ◽  
Persistent Scatterer Interferometry ◽  
Northern Greece ◽  
Maximum Deformation ◽  
Linear Pattern ◽  
Synthetic Aperture Radar Interferometry ◽  
Persistent Scatterer ◽  
Basin Scale ◽  
Interferometric Sar ◽  
The Village

Abstract. The potential of repeat-pass space borne SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) interferometry has been exploited to investigate spatial patterns of land subsidence in the Anthemountas basin, in the northern part of Greece. The PSI (Persistent Scatterer Interferometry) approach, based on the processing of long series of SAR acquisitions, has been applied to forty-two images acquired in 1995–2001 by ERS1/2 satellites. Interferometric results have been analyzed at a basin scale as support for land motion mapping and at local scale for the characterization of ground motion events affecting the village of Perea in the Thermaikos municipality and the "Macedonia" international airport. PSI results revealed a moderate subsidence phenomenon along the wider coastal zone of Anthemountas basin corresponding to intense groundwater extraction. Highest values, exceeding 20 mm yr−1, were measured in the airport area where the thickest sequence of compressible Quaternary sediments occurs. Intense subsidence has been detected also in the Perea village (maximum deformation up to 10–15 mm yr−1), where a series of fractures, causing damages to both buildings and infrastructure, occurred in 2005–2006. Furthermore, a linear pattern of deformation, elongated parallel to the major normal Thermi fault, has been observed, indicating movements with a probable tectonic component.

scholarly journals Advanced interpretation of land subsidence by validating multi-interferometric SAR data: the case study of the Anthemountas basin (Northern Greece)

2013 ◽  
Vol 13 (10) ◽  
pp. 2425-2440 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Raspini ◽  
C. Loupasakis ◽  
D. Rozos ◽  
S. Moretti
Keyword(s):  
Land Subsidence ◽  
Persistent Scatterer Interferometry ◽  
Northern Greece ◽  
Maximum Deformation ◽  
Synthetic Aperture Radar Interferometry ◽  
Persistent Scatterer ◽  
Basin Scale ◽  
Interferometric Sar ◽  
The Village

Abstract. The potential of repeat-pass space borne SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) interferometry has been exploited to investigate spatial patterns of land subsidence in the Anthemountas basin, in the northern part of Greece. The PSI (Persistent Scatterer Interferometry) approach, based on the processing of long series of SAR acquisitions, has been applied to forty-two images acquired in 1995–2001 by ERS1/2 satellites. Interferometric results have been analysed at a basin scale as support for land motion mapping and at a local scale for the characterisation of ground motion events affecting the village of Perea in the Thermaikos municipality and the "Macedonia" international airport. PSI results revealed a moderate subsidence phenomenon along the wider coastal zone of Anthemountas basin corresponding to intense groundwater extraction. Highest values, exceeding −20 mm yr−1, were measured in the airport area where the thickest sequence of compressible Quaternary sediments occurs. Intense subsidence has been detected also in the Perea village (maximum deformation of −10 to −15 mm yr−1), where a series of fractures, causing damages to both buildings and infrastructure, occurred in 2005–2006.

scholarly journals Basin and local scale detection of ground subsidence through persistent scatterer interferometry: The Anthemountas Basin (Northern Greece) case study.

2016 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 1510
Author(s):  
F. Raspini ◽  
C. Loupasakis ◽  
D. Rozos ◽  
S. Moretti
Keyword(s):  
Local Scale ◽  
Sar Interferometry ◽  
Ground Subsidence ◽  
Persistent Scatterer Interferometry ◽  
Northern Greece ◽  
Space Agency ◽  
Sensing Technology ◽  
Persistent Scatterer ◽  
Basin Scale ◽  
Sar Imagery

In the framework of the Terrafirma Extension project, a study has been established for ground motion detection and mapping in the Anthemountas basin (Central Macedonia). Terrafirma promotes the exploitation of Persistent Scatterer Interferometry (PSI) techniques, a remote sensing technology based on multi-temporal satellite Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery. The potential of SAR interferometry has been exploited through the innovative Wide Area Mapping approach, recently implemented by the German Space Agency (DLR) and aimed at measuring land deformation over large areas. Interferometric results from 1995-2001 by ERS1/2 satellites has been analyzed at a basin scale to investigate spatial patterns of land motion in the wider Anthemountas plain, where subsidence phenomena related to intense groundwater extraction is clearly manifested.  The   WAP results turned out to be a valuable tool for the characterization at local scale of the land subsidence in the runaways area of the Macedonia airport and in the village of Perea, affected in 2005-2006 by a series of tensile ground ruptures due to excessive groundwater withdrawal. Besides the study of the  phenomenon, this work confirmed the suitability of PSI techniques to detect and measure surface displacements with millimetre accuracy and also to reconstruct the deformations history of the investigated areas through displacement time series analysis.

scholarly journals INTEGRATING MULTI-TEMPORAL SAR IMAGES AND GPS DATA TO MONITOR THREE-DIMENSIONAL LAND SUBSIDENCE

2019 ◽  
Vol IV-3/W1 ◽  
pp. 9-16
Author(s):  
H. Ito ◽  
J. Susaki ◽  
T. Anahara
Keyword(s):  
Land Subsidence ◽  
Least Squares Method ◽  
Effective Means ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Persistent Scatterer Interferometry ◽  
Sar Images ◽  
Persistent Scatterer ◽  
Multi Temporal ◽  
Interferometric Sar ◽  
Deformation Measurements

<p><strong>Abstract.</strong> Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is an effective means of monitoring land subsidence, and differential interferometric SAR (DInSAR) is commonly used to acquire the necessary data. In particular, persistent scatterer interferometry (PSI) can be used to measure land subsidence accurately over a wide area from multi-temporal SAR images. However, the estimated displacement is obtained only in the radar line-of-sight (LOS) direction, making it necessary to develop a method for measuring three-dimensional displacements by combining multidirectional observations. Therefore, we propose herein a method for estimating three-dimensional displacement velocities by combining the results from PSI and geodetic deformation measurements, namely, Global Positioning System and leveling data. We apply the least-squares method to Kansai International Airport in Japan by using 13 ALOS-2/PALSAR-2 ascending images from 2014 to 2018 and 17 ALOS-2/PALSAR-2 descending images from 2015 to 2018. In validation, the rootmean- square errors are 14, 16, and 14 mm/year for the east–west, north–south, and vertical components, respectively, showing that combining PSI results and geodetic deformation measurements is effective for monitoring land subsidence.</p>

scholarly journals PSI-based methodology to land subsidence mechanism recognition

2015 ◽  
Vol 372 ◽  
pp. 357-360 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Bonì ◽  
C. Meisina ◽  
C. Perotti ◽  
F. Fenaroli
Keyword(s):  
Land Subsidence ◽  
Vadose Zone ◽  
Northern Italy ◽  
Clay Soils ◽  
Soil Consolidation ◽  
Persistent Scatterer Interferometry ◽  
Temporal Scales ◽  
Po Plain ◽  
Persistent Scatterer ◽  
Spatio Temporal

Abstract. A methodology based on Persistent Scatterer Interferometry (PSI) is proposed in order to disentangle the contribution of different processes that act at different spatio-temporal scales in land subsidence (i.e. vadose zone processes as swelling/shrinkage of clay soils, soil consolidation and fluid extraction). The methodology was applied in different Italian geological contexts characterized by natural and anthropic processes (i.e. a Prealpine valley and the Po Plain in northern Italy).

scholarly journals Spatial Analysis of Land Subsidence in the San Luis Potosi Valley Induced by Aquifer Overexploitation Using the Coherent Pixels Technique (CPT) and Sentinel-1 InSAR Observation

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (22) ◽  
pp. 3822
Author(s):  
María Inés Navarro-Hernández ◽  
Roberto Tomás ◽  
Juan M. Lopez-Sanchez ◽  
Abraham Cárdenas-Tristán ◽  
Jordi J. Mallorquí
Keyword(s):  
Land Subsidence ◽  
Strong Relationship ◽  
Satellite System ◽  
Groundwater Withdrawal ◽  
Persistent Scatterer Interferometry ◽  
San Luis ◽  
Persistent Scatterer ◽  
San Luis Potosi ◽  
Global Navigation Satellite ◽  
San Luis Potosí

The San Luis Potosi metropolitan area has suffered considerable damage from land subsidence over the past decades, which has become visible since 1990. This paper seeks to evaluate the effects of groundwater withdrawal on land subsidence in the San Luis Potosi Valley and the development of surface faults due to the differential compaction of sediments. For this purpose, we applied the Coherent Pixels Technique (CPT), a Persistent Scatterer Interferometry (PSI) technique, using 112 Sentinel-1 acquisitions from October 2014 to November 2019 to estimate the deformation rate. The results revealed that the deformation areas in the municipality of Soledad de Graciano Sánchez mostly exhibit subsidence values between −1.5 and −3.5 cm/year; whereas in San Luis Potosi these values are between −1.8 and −4.2 cm/year. The PSI results were validated by five Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) benchmarks available, providing a data correlation between the results obtained with both techniques of 0.986. This validation suggests that interferometric derived deformations agree well with results obtained from GNSS data. The strong relationship between trace fault, land subsidence,e and groundwater extraction suggests that groundwater withdrawal is resulting in subsidence induced faulting, which follows the pattern of structural faults buried by sediments.

scholarly journals InSAR Greece with Parallelized Persistent Scatterer Interferometry: A National Ground Motion Service for Big Copernicus Sentinel-1 Data

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (19) ◽  
pp. 3207
Author(s):  
Ioannis Papoutsis ◽  
Charalampos Kontoes ◽  
Stavroula Alatza ◽  
Alexis Apostolakis ◽  
Constantinos Loupasakis
Keyword(s):  
Time Series ◽  
Ground Motion ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Persistent Scatterer Interferometry ◽  
Persistent Scatterers ◽  
Processing Chain ◽  
Persistent Scatterer ◽  
Basin Scale ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Impact

Advances in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) interferometry have enabled the seamless monitoring of the Earth’s crust deformation. The dense archive of the Sentinel-1 Copernicus mission provides unprecedented spatial and temporal coverage; however, time-series analysis of such big data volumes requires high computational efficiency. We present a parallelized-PSI (P-PSI), a novel, parallelized, and end-to-end processing chain for the fully automated assessment of line-of-sight ground velocities through persistent scatterer interferometry (PSI), tailored to scale to the vast multitemporal archive of Sentinel-1 data. P-PSI is designed to transparently access different and complementary Sentinel-1 repositories, and download the appropriate datasets for PSI. To make it efficient for large-scale applications, we re-engineered and parallelized interferogram creation and multitemporal interferometric processing, and introduced distributed implementations to best use computing cores and provide resourceful storage management. We propose a new algorithm to further enhance the processing efficiency, which establishes a non-uniform patch grid considering land use, based on the expected number of persistent scatterers. P-PSI achieves an overall speed-up by a factor of five for a full Sentinel-1 frame for processing in a 20-core server. The processing chain is tested on a large-scale project to calculate and monitor deformation patterns over the entire extent of the Greek territory—our own Interferometric SAR (InSAR) Greece project. Time-series InSAR analysis was performed on volumes of about 12 TB input data corresponding to more than 760 Single Look Complex Sentinel-1A and B images mostly covering mainland Greece in the period of 2015–2019. InSAR Greece provides detailed ground motion information on more than 12 million distinct locations, providing completely new insights into the impact of geophysical and anthropogenic activities at this geographic scale. This new information is critical to enhancing our understanding of the underlying mechanisms, providing valuable input into risk assessment models. We showcase this through the identification of various characteristic geohazard locations in Greece and discuss their criticality. The selected geohazard locations, among a thousand, cover a wide range of catastrophic events including landslides, land subsidence, and structural failures of various scales, ranging from a few hundredths of square meters up to the basin scale. The study enriches the large catalog of geophysical related phenomena maintained by the GeObservatory portal of the Center of Earth Observation Research and Satellite Remote Sensing BEYOND of the National Observatory of Athens for the opening of new knowledge to the wider scientific community.

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