Long Term Subsidence Analysis and Soil Fracturing Zonation Based on InSAR Time Series Modelling in Northern Zona Metropolitana del Valle de Mexico

Siles, Gabriela; Alcérreca‐Huerta, Juan Carlos; López-Quiroz, Penélope; Niemeier, Wolfgang

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“…In this area, a number of InSAR based studies discussed the notable deformation patterns and rates observed, their relationship with intensive groundwater pumping and drawdown of the piezometric levels (e.g., up to 8-10 m drop recorded between 2006-2011 in this area, see Figure 5f) [82] and induced compaction of the thick layer of clay-rich deposits of former lakes Texcoco and Xaltocan (e.g., [8,9,12,16,[83][84][85][86][87]). Figure 3 shows that the aquifers encompassed by this subsiding area were all classified as overexploited in 2011, as they also were in the preceding decade.…”

Section: Eastern Mexico City Metropolitan Areamentioning

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Wide-Area InSAR Survey of Surface Deformation in Urban Areas and Geothermal Fields in the Eastern Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt, Mexico

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This paper provides the first wide-area Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) survey of the whole eastern Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt (42,200 km2). The aims are to identify ground deformation hotspots within major urbanized areas and rural valleys, establish baselines in geothermal exploration sites, and analyze deformation at geothermal exploitation sites and its relationship with energy production. The whole 2003–2010 ENVISAT C-band SAR archive available over the region was processed with the Small BAseline Subset (SBAS) InSAR method to retrieve over 840,000 coherent targets and estimate their ground displacement rates and time series. Land subsidence hotspots due to aquifer drawdown are found within the city of Puebla (up to −53 mm/year vertical rates, groundwater pumping for industrial use), Tlaxcala and Apizaco (−17 mm/year, industrial and public), the valley of Tecamachalco (−22 mm/year, agricultural), Tulancingo (−55 mm/year, public, industrial and agricultural), and in the eastern Mexico City metropolitan area (−44 mm/year, agricultural). The baseline for the Acoculco caldera complex shows widespread ground stability. Conversely, localized subsidence patterns of −5 to −10 mm/year exist around Las Derrumbadas and Cerro Pinto in the Serdán-Oriental basin, due to intense groundwater pumping for agriculture. A well-defined land subsidence area with −11 mm/year maximum rates is found at Los Humeros volcanic complex within Los Potreros collapse, correlating well with energy production infrastructure location and historical steam production rates. Field surveys carried out in Acoculco and Los Humeros in 2018 provide supporting evidence for the identification of hydrothermal manifestations, and understanding of the landscape and surface deformation patterns within the geothermal fields.

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Section: Eastern Mexico City Metropolitan Areamentioning

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Wide-Area InSAR Survey of Surface Deformation in Urban Areas and Geothermal Fields in the Eastern Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt, Mexico

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“…The lagoon context of Venice imposed a specific urban model, the streets being replaced by canals (Bondesan 2017). Mexico City, which has spread over drained marshes, faces major problems of instability due to the collapse of former marshlands and the overexploitation of groundwater (Ortega-Guerrero et al 1999, Ortiz-Zamora, Ortega-Guerrero 2010, Siles et al 2015. c) Geomorphological processes may lead to natural hazards (Figs 1c,2b and 2c Subsidence processes due to the exploitation of underground resources are quite common (Sherlock 1922), as is the case of water extraction in Mexico City (ortega-Guerrero et al 1999, Ortiz-Zamora, Ortega-Guerrero 2010) or coal exploitation in Europe (Price et al 2011, Lamich et al 2016.…”

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Urban Geomorphological Heritage. An Overview

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Urbanization is a global phenomenon and currently more than half of the world's population lives in urban areas. Studies on geomorphological heritage and the development of specific methods of investigation (assessment, inventories, cartography) are, however, relatively rare and limited. This paper first describes the relationships between urbanization and geomorphology. Secondly, it presents an overview of the main works on the urban geomorphological heritage. Then, the main methods of investigation are presented. Finally, we discuss the challenging issues concerning the protection and the promotion of the urban geomorphological heritage.

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“…Among traditional time series deformation models, one of the most widely used strategy is to first estimate the mean deformation rate between two successive SAR acquisitions (that is the interferometric pair) and then to integrate multiple results to determine the accumulated total deformation. This model is commonly referred to as the Multi Velocity Model (MVM) [18,29,30]. Another model is Permanent Velocity Model (PVM).…”

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Radar Interferometry Time Series to Investigate Deformation of Soft Clay Subgrade Settlement—A Case Study of Lungui Highway, China

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Monitoring surface movement near highways over soft clay subgrades is fundamental for understanding the dynamics of the settlement process and preventing hazards. Earlier studies have demonstrated the accuracy and cost-effectiveness of using time series radar interferometry (InSAR) technique to measure the ground deformation. However, the accuracy of the advanced differential InSAR techniques, including short baseline subset (SBAS) InSAR, is limited by the temporal deformation models used. In this study, a comparison of four widely used time series deformation models in InSAR, namely Multi Velocity Model (MVM), Permanent Velocity Model (PVM), Seasonal Model (SM) and Cubic Polynomial Model (CPM), was conducted to measure the long-term ground deformation after the construction of road embankment over soft clay subgrade. SBAS-InSAR technique with TerraSAR-X satellite imagery were conducted to generate the time series deformation data over the studied highway. In the experiments, three accuracy indices were applied to show the residual phase, mean temporal coherence and the RMS of high-pass deformation, respectively. In addition, the derived time series deformation maps of the highway based on the four selected models and 17 TerraSAR-X images acquired from June 2014 to November 2015 were compared. The leveling data was also used to validate the experimental results. Our results suggested the Seasonal Model is the most suitable model for the selected study site. Consequently, we analyzed two bridges in detail and three single points distributed near the highway. Compared with the ground leveling deformation measurements and results of other models, SM showed better consistency, with the accuracy of deformation to be ±7 mm.

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Long Term Subsidence Analysis and Soil Fracturing Zonation Based on InSAR Time Series Modelling in Northern Zona Metropolitana del Valle de Mexico

Cited by 7 publications

References 35 publications

Wide-Area InSAR Survey of Surface Deformation in Urban Areas and Geothermal Fields in the Eastern Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt, Mexico

Wide-Area InSAR Survey of Surface Deformation in Urban Areas and Geothermal Fields in the Eastern Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt, Mexico

Urban Geomorphological Heritage. An Overview

Radar Interferometry Time Series to Investigate Deformation of Soft Clay Subgrade Settlement—A Case Study of Lungui Highway, China

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