Regional Land Subsidence Analysis in Eastern Beijing Plain by InSAR Time Series and Wavelet Transforms

Gao, Mengtan; Gong, Huili; Chen, Beibei; Li, Xiaojuan; Zhou, Chaofan; Shi, Min; Yuan, Shuai; Chen, Zheng; Duan, Guangyao

doi:10.3390/rs10030365

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“…(1) Merging the InSAR results in space In this study, we only consider the difference of deformation in point targets, caused by a different selections of reference points [41]. We first acquired the deformation for each SAR image with the IPTA technique.…”

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Land Subsidence Response to Different Land Use Types and Water Resource Utilization in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, China

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The long-term overexploitation of groundwater leads to serious land subsidence and threatens the safety of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei (BTH). In this paper, an interferometric point target analysis (IPTA) with small baseline subset InSAR (SBAS-InSAR) technique was used to derive the land subsidence in a typical BTH area from 2012 to 2018 with 126 Radarsat-2 and 184 Sentinel-1 images. The analysis reveals that the average subsidence rate reached 118 mm/year from 2012 to 2018. Eleven subsidence features were identified: Shangzhuang, Beijing Airport, Jinzhan and Heizhuanghu in Beijing, Guangyang and Shengfang in Langfang, Wangqingtuo in Tianjin, Dongguang in Cangzhou, Jingxian and Zaoqiang in Hengshui and Julu in Xingtai. Comparing the different types of land use in subsidence feature areas, the results show that when the land-use type is relatively more complex and superimposed with residential, industrial and agricultural land, the land subsidence is relatively more significant. Moreover, the land subsidence development patterns are different in the BTH areas because of the different methods adopted for their water resource development and utilization, with an imbalance in their economic development levels. Finally, we found that the subsidence changes are consistent with groundwater level changes and there is a lag period between land subsidence and groundwater level changes of approximately two months in Beijing Airport, Jinzhan, Jingxian and Zaoqiang, of three months in Shangzhuang, Heizhuanghu, Guangyang, Wangqingtuo and Dongguang and of four months in Shengfang.

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“…2020, 12, 457 3 of 22 reached 4000 km 2 . The areas affected by land subsidence comprise more than 60% of the Beijing Plain and form six land subsidence funnels [40][41][42][43][44].…”

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Land Subsidence Response to Different Land Use Types and Water Resource Utilization in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, China

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“…BCIA is in an enclave of Chaoyang District and the surroundings of that enclave in suburban Shunyi District, which is 10 km away to the severe subsidence area. Therefore, the wide-scale subsidence in Beijing, investigated in [4,8,37], will definitely have an effect on the subsidence in BCIA. Some driving factors causing the subsidence were analyzed and listed as following and all of them should be taken into account to take measures to slow down the subsidence.…”

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“…Beijing, the political center of China with a population of more than 21 million, has suffered from land subsidence since 1935 [1]. Severe subsidence still occurs in eastern Beijing, with a maximum subsidence rate exceeding 10 cm/year [2][3][4]. Beijing Capital International Airport (BCIA) is located in the Beijing Shunyi District, northeast of downtown, which was involved in the core subsidence area in Beijing.…”

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Diagnosing Subsidence Geohazard at Beijing Capital International Airport, from High-Resolution SAR Interferometry

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Beijing Capital International Airport (BCIA) has suffered from uneven land subsidence since 1935, which affects the smoothness of airport runways and seriously threatens the safety of aircrafts. In this paper, a spaceborne interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) with high-resolution Cosmo-SkyMed SAR data was utilized at BCIA for the first time to diagnose the subsidence hazard. The results show that subsidence is progressing at BCIA at a maximum rate of 50 mm/year, which is mainly distributed in the northwest side of the airport. It was found that the Shunyi-Liangxiang fault directly traverses Runway2 and Runway3 and causes uneven subsidence, controlling the spatial subsidence pattern to some degree. Four driving factors of subsidence were investigated, namely: the over-exploitation of groundwater, active faults, compressible soil thickness, and aquifer types. For the future sustainable development of BCIA, the influence of Beijing new airport and Beijing Daxing International Airport (BDIA), was analyzed and predicted. It is necessary to take relevant measures to control the uneven subsidence during the initial operation of BDIA and conduct long-term monitoring to ensure the regular safe operation of BCIA. This case demonstrates a remote sensing method of diagnosing the subsidence hazard with high accuracy and non-contact, providing a reliable alternative for the geohazard diagnosis of key infrastructures in the future.Significant uneven subsidence or fissure would cause the risk of major disruption. It could particularly pose a great threat to the safety of aircrafts during takeoff, landing and taxing. Monitoring and controlling the subsidence of runways are of great significant to ensure the safe operation of the whole airport and avoid the potential extensive loss of life and property.During the last three decades, interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) technology has developed into a powerful tool, providing high-resolution, day-and-night, weather-independent wide-coverage and high-accuracy measurements of the earth surface [6]. It has been widely used in various applications, such as the displacements monitoring of city subsidence [7][8][9][10][11][12], important infrastructures [13][14][15][16] and landslides geohazards [17][18][19][20][21]. Compared to traditional geodetic measuring methods-e.g., leveling and global positioning system (GPS)-InSAR measurements do not need any on-site installation and power supply, thus they will not have any impact on the regular operation of the airport. InSAR has been used in several airport subsidence monitoring, such as in Chek Lap Kok Airport [22]. The subsidence in BCIA has been monitored using InSAR technology, which has drawn wide attention from the government and relevant scholars. Gao et al. used multi-temporal InSAR technology to investigate the deformation in BCIA with Envisat ASAR images (from 2003 to 2013) [23] and with TerraSAR-X data (from 2010 to 2017) [24]. Continuous monitoring covering BCIA is in high demand in order to investigate the...

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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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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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Regional Land Subsidence Analysis in Eastern Beijing Plain by InSAR Time Series and Wavelet Transforms

Cited by 67 publications

References 53 publications

Land Subsidence Response to Different Land Use Types and Water Resource Utilization in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, China

Land Subsidence Response to Different Land Use Types and Water Resource Utilization in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, China

Diagnosing Subsidence Geohazard at Beijing Capital International Airport, from High-Resolution SAR Interferometry

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

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