It has been suggested that Tianjin, China, has significant land subsidence due to excessive extraction of water. Although it is presently under control, the land subsidence around Tianjin suburbs in recent years should not be ignored. However, existing research work on land subsidence is based on traditional synthetic aperture radar satellite images in which the research time spans are mainly before 2012. An advanced time-series method, namely small baselines subset (SBAS) technique, is applied to a total of 27 Sentinel-1A images over Tianjin acquired between May 31, 2015, and May 13, 2016, to derive the subsidence magnitude and distribution of Tianjin. Furthermore, the overall and quantitative validations of SBAS-derived results are implemented. First, the overall subsidence distribution derived by SBAS is compared with the annual report of land subsidence in Tianjin 2015, which shows the same subsidence trend and distribution. Then, 44 benchmarks and 2 continuously operating reference station datasets, i.e., CH01 and XQYY, are processed to provide a specific validation of SBAS-derived results of Sentinel-1A. Finally, through investigation, an interpretation from two aspects of groundwater extraction and geological structures of the surrounding Wangqingtuo settlement funnel area is given.
Surface subsidence is the main regional environmental geological disaster in plain area in China. The rapid growth of
population, the over-exploitation of groundwater and the rapid development of urbanization impacts the occurrence and
development of surface subsidence to some extent. The city of Beijing, located in the Beijing Plain, is one of
international metropolis in China that experiences the severe surface subsidence. Because of conventional measurement
methods with low spatial resolution, differential interferometric synthetic aperture radar(D-InSAR) is susceptible to
signal decorrelation and atmospheric delay, persistent scatterer interferometric synthetic aperture radar(PS-InSAR) is
based on a large number of SAR images, but small baseline subset interferometric synthetic aperture radar (SBASInSAR)
only needs a small number of images and performs better than PS-InSAR for obtaining nonlinear deformation
information, in this paper, SBAS-InSAR was used to obtain the high resolution surface subsidence information in
Beijing region, China. A spatial-temporal analysis of the surface subsidence in Beijing region during the years of 2007-
2010 was performed utilizing eighteen C-band ENVISAT ASAR images (from August 1, 2007 to September 29, 2010).
The results show that subsidence in Beijing region is severe uneven, subsidence funnels appear in Changping District,
Shunyi District, Tongzhou District, Daxing District, etc., and many subsidence funnels are interconnected and have an
eastward expansion trend; during the period of 2007 to 2010, the subsidence velocities are in the range of -158.5
mm/year to 12.4 mm/year and the maximum subsidence of subsidence center is over 400 mm; surface subsidence is
influenced by groundwater exploitation and urbanization significantly.
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