Monitoring Land Subsidence in Wuhan City (China) using the SBAS-InSAR Method with Radarsat-2 Imagery Data

• Published in: Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) Vol. 19; no. 3; p. 743
• Main Authors: Zhang, Yang, Liu, Yaolin, Jin, Manqi, Jing, Ying, Liu, Yi, Liu, Yanfang, Sun, Wei, Wei, Junqing, Chen, Yiyun
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland MDPI AG 12.02.2019; MDPI
• Subjects: Environmental impact; Global positioning systems; GPS; Groundwater; interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR); Interferometry; land subsidence; Precipitation; Radarsat-2 images; Remote sensing; Rivers; Shear strength; small baseline subset (SBAS) method; Beijing China; China; Yangtze River; small baseline subset (SBAS) method; Radarsat-2 images; land subsidence; interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR)
• ISSN: 1424-8220; 1424-8220
• DOI: 10.3390/s19030743

Wuhan city is the biggest city in central China and has suffered subsidence problems in recent years because of its rapid urban construction. However, longtime and wide range monitoring of land subsidence is lacking. The causes of subsidence also require further study, such as natural conditions and...