Analysis of the Spatiotemporal Variation in Land Subsidence on the Beijing Plain, China

Lin, Guo‐Qiang; Gong, Huili; Zhu, Feng; Zhu, Lin; Zhang, Zhenxin; Zhou, Chaofan; Gao, Mengtan; Sun, Yike

doi:10.3390/rs11101170

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“…Over the past few decades, interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) has been developed as an effective geodetic surveying technique and used for investigating geophysical phenomena, including seismic deformation [18,19], volcano dynamics [20,21], earthquakes [22,23], landslides [24,25], and other geologic processes. The InSAR technique can also monitor the ground deformation caused by human activities (e.g., mining [26,27], delta sinking [28], and land subsidence [29][30][31][32]). Ground fissure is commonly a secondary environmental geological problem caused by land subsidence [33] and the InSAR technique can provide a new tool for investigating ground fissure activity [34,35].…”

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Land Subsidence and Ground Fissures in Beijing Capital International Airport (BCIA): Evidence from Quasi-PS InSAR Analysis

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Remote Sensing

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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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Land Subsidence and Ground Fissures in Beijing Capital International Airport (BCIA): Evidence from Quasi-PS InSAR Analysis

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“…1). The locations and the hydrogeological conditions of the study region are described in detail in a previous study (Guo et al, 2019). The ground subsidence in Beijing began in 1935, and the main subsidence regions were located in Xidan and Dongdan.…”

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“…Compared with traditional technology, InSAR has the advantages of a wide monitoring range and high monitoring accuracy and has been widely used in ground subsidence monitoring research by experts and scholars (Castellazzi et al, 2016;Albano et al, 2016;Amighpey et al, 2016;Dehghani et al, 2013;Ge et al, 2014;Da Lio and Tosi, 2018?). In 2002and 2004 proposed the small baseline set interferometry-interferometric synthetic aperture radar (SBAS-InSAR) technique, which is more suitable for long time, slow deformation surface monitoring (Berardino et al, 2002;Lanari et al, 2004). Subsequently, experts and schol- ars have used this technology to select multisource SAR data, such as ENVISAT ASAR and COSMO-SkyMed, and have used these data to monitor the surface deformation of the Gulf of Naples (Solari et al, 2018), Los Angeles (Chilingar and Endres, 2005), Central Mexico and other areas (Castellazzi et al, 2016).…”

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Analysis of land subsidence changes on the Beijing Plain from 2004 to 2015

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Land subsidence, as a surface response to the development, utilization and evolution of underground space, has become a global and multidisciplinary complex geological environment problem. Since the 1960s, land subsidence has been developing rapidly in the Beijing Plain area. Against the backdrop of the integration of Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei in addition to "southern water" (South-to-North Water Diversion Project, SNWDP) entering Beijing, the systematic study of the evolution mechanism of land subsidence is of great significance for the sustainable development of the regional economy. Firstly, this study used ENVISAT ASAR and RADARSAT-2 data to obtain surface deformation information for the Beijing Plain area from 2004 to 2015 and then verified the results. Secondly, the study area was divided into units using a 960 m×960 m grid, and the ground settlement rate of each grid unit from 2004 to 2015 was obtained. Finally, the Mann-Kendall test was performed on the grid to obtain the mutation information for each grid unit. Combined with hydrogeology and basic geological conditions, we have attempted to analyze the causes of the mutations in the grid. The results show that 2347 grid cells were mutated in a single year, with most of these distributed across the Yongding River alluvial fan and the middle and lower parts of the Chaobai River alluvial fan. A total of 1128 grid cells were mutated in multiple years, with the majority of these cells mainly distributed across the upper-middle area of the alluvial fan, near the emergency water source and at the edge of the groundwater funnel. This study aims to provide favorable technical support and a scientific basis for urban construction in Beijing.

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“…The discrete deformation rates variation values are obtained by Eq. (3), and the discrete values are fitted by the fitting model (Júnior et al, 2006). Commonly used fitting models include exponential, spherical, gaussian, and the linear model.…”

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“…Researches have shown that groundwater level, the geology background including the thickness of the compressible layer and aquifer structure have a strong relationship with the land subsidence. Guo et al (2019) worked on the temporal mutation of land subsidence through the Mann-Kendall method, which is a nonparametric statistical method to evaluate the trend changes of time series. She found that about 50 % of the grids mutated in 2015, the main reason is the implement of the "South-to-North Water Transfer Middle Line" project, which diverted 703 million cubic meters of water to Beijing from 2014 to 2015.…”

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Spatial variation of three-dimensional deformation: a case study in the north-eastern Beijing plain, China

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Land subsidence is a serious geo-hazard in Beijing Plain, which has threatened the safety of the operation of the metropolis. This study focuses on the land subsidence in the Chaobai River alluvial fan, where is the main groundwater supply region. The vertical and the East-West deformation from June 2015 to December 2017 was derived based on the SAR imaging geometry deduction. Then, the spatial variation characteristics of the deformation were analysed and the relations with the impact factors were carried out. Results show that the nugget effect (i.e., random to total spatial variance ratio) values of the vertical and the East-West deformation at regional scale were 13 % and 49 %, respectively. This indicates that the distribution of the vertical deformation is dominated by regional influencing factors, while both regional and local-scale impact factors are important for the distribution of the East-West deformation. In the southern part of the study area, the extraction of groundwater is the dominant factor affecting the spatial distribution of the vertical displacement, while the dominant factor of East-West deformation is not obvious. This study can enrich the understanding of land subsidence distribution and will help us better understand the causes of land subsidence.

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Analysis of the Spatiotemporal Variation in Land Subsidence on the Beijing Plain, China

Cited by 31 publications

References 40 publications

Land Subsidence and Ground Fissures in Beijing Capital International Airport (BCIA): Evidence from Quasi-PS InSAR Analysis

Land Subsidence and Ground Fissures in Beijing Capital International Airport (BCIA): Evidence from Quasi-PS InSAR Analysis

Analysis of land subsidence changes on the Beijing Plain from 2004 to 2015

Spatial variation of three-dimensional deformation: a case study in the north-eastern Beijing plain, China

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