Title
Multi-Sensor InSAR Analysis of Progressive Land Subsidence over the Coastal City of Urayasu, Japan.
Abstract
In earthquake-prone areas, identifying patterns of ground deformation is important before they become latent risk factors. As one of the severely damaged areas due to the 2011 Tohoku earthquake in Japan, Urayasu City in Chiba Prefecture has been suffering from land subsidence as a part of its land was built by a massive land-fill project. To investigate the long-term land deformation patterns in Urayasu City, three sets of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data acquired during 1993-2006 from European Remote Sensing satellites (ERS-1/-2 (C-band)), during 2006-2010 from the Phased Array L-band Synthetic Aperture Radar onboard the Advanced Land Observation Satellite (ALOS PALSAR (L-band)) and from 2014-2017 from the ALOS-2 PALSAR-2 (L-band) were processed by using multitemporal interferometric SAR (InSAR) techniques. Leveling survey data were also used to verify the accuracy of the InSAR-derived results. The results from the ERS-1/-2, ALOS PALSAR and ALOS-2 PALSAR-2 data processing showed continuing subsidence in several reclaimed areas of Urayasu City due to the integrated effects of numerous natural and anthropogenic processes. The maximum subsidence rate of the period from 1993 to 2006 was approximately 27 mm/year, while the periods from 2006 to 2010 and from 2014 to 2017 were approximately 30 and 18 mm/year, respectively. The quantitative validation results of the InSAR-derived deformation trend during the three observation periods are consistent with the leveling survey data measured from 1993 to 2017. Our results further demonstrate the advantages of InSAR measurements as an alternative to ground-based measurements for land subsidence monitoring in coastal reclaimed areas.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.3390/rs10081304
REMOTE SENSING
Keywords
Field
DocType
ERS-1,-2,PALSAR,PALSAR-2,InSAR,land subsidence,reclaimed land,Urayasu City
Interferometric synthetic aperture radar,Remote sensing,Subsidence,Geology
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
10
8
2072-4292
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.36
11
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yusupujiang Aimaiti110.36
Fumio Yamazaki213521.69
Wen Liu38619.59