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Articles | Volume XLII-3
https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-XLII-3-1375-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-XLII-3-1375-2018
30 Apr 2018
 | 30 Apr 2018

GROUND SUBSIDENCE MONITORING WITH MT-InSAR AND MECHANISM INVERSION OVER XI’AN, CHINA

M. M. Peng, C. Y. Zhao, Q. Zhang, J. Zhang, and Y. Y. Liu

Keywords: Xi’an, MT-InSAR, Land subsidence, Subway line No.3, Inversion

Abstract. The ancient Xi’an, China, has been suffering severe land subsidence and ground fissure hazards since the 1960s, which has affected the safety of Subways. Multi-sensor SAR data are conducted to monitor the latest complex ground deformation and its influence on subway line No.3 over Xi’an. Annual deformation rates have been retrieved to reveal the spatiotemporal evolution of ground subsidence in Xi’an city from 2013 to 2017. Meanwhile, the correlation between land subsidence and ground fissures are analyzed by retrieving the deformation differences in both sides of the fissures. Besides, the deformation along subway line No. 3 is analyzed, and the fast deformation section is quantitatively studied. Finally, a flat lying sill model with distributed contractions is implemented to model the InSAR deformation over YHZ subsidence center, which manifests that the ground deformation is mainly caused by groundwater withdrawal.