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SENSING THE LAND SUBSIDENCE IN THE VENICE LAGOON BY INTERFEROMETRIC POINT TARGET ANALYSIS [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Land subsidence is a severe geologic hazard threading the lowlying coastal areas worldwide. Monitoring land subsidence has been significantly improved over the last few years by space borne earth observation techniques based on SAR (Synthetic Aperture ...
Carbognin, Laura   +6 more
core   +1 more source

Analysis of the Contribution Rate of the Influencing Factors to Land Subsidence in the Eastern Beijing Plain, China Based on Extremely Randomized Trees (ERT) Method

open access: yesRemote Sensing, 2020
As a common geological hazard, land subsidence is widely distributed in the Eastern Beijing Plain. The pattern of evolution of this geological phenomenon is controlled by many factors, including groundwater level change in different aquifers ...
Fengkai Li   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

An Improved Multi-Sensor MTI Time-Series Fusion Method to Monitor the Subsidence of Beijing Subway Network during the Past 15 Years

open access: yesRemote Sensing, 2020
Land subsidence threatens the stable operation of urban rail transit, including subways. Obtaining deformation information during the entire life-cycle of a subway becomes a necessary means to guarantee urban safety.
Li Duan   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Simulation of rock salt dissolution and its impact on land subsidence [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Extensive land subsidence can occur due to subsurface dissolution of evaporites such as halite and gypsum. This paper explores techniques to simulate the salt dissolution forming an intrastratal karst, which is embedded in a sequence of carbonates, marls,
Huggenberger, P.   +3 more
core   +2 more sources

Land subsidence and its affecting factors in Cangzhou, North China Plain

open access: yesFrontiers in Environmental Science, 2022
Land subsidence is a typical geo-hazard in Cangzhou, North China Plain, having caused severe damages to transportation networks, public utilities, and other civil infrastructures.
Haipeng Guo   +13 more
doaj   +1 more source

Estimating annual soil carbon loss in agricultural peatland soils using a nitrogen budget approach. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Around the world, peatland degradation and soil subsidence is occurring where these soils have been converted to agriculture. Since initial drainage in the mid-1800s, continuous farming of such soils in the California Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta (the ...
Horwath, William R   +3 more
core   +2 more sources

The worsening impacts of land reclamation assessed with Sentinel-1: The Rize (Turkey) test case [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Massive amounts of land are being reclaimed to build airports, new cities, ports, and highways. Hundreds of kilometers are added each year, as coastlines are extended further out to the sea.
Althuwaynee   +50 more
core   +1 more source

Settlement characteristics of major infrastructures in Shanghai [PDF]

open access: yesProceedings of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences, 2015
Critical infrastructures in Shanghai have undergone uneven settlement since their operation, which plays an important role in affecting the security of Shanghai.
X. Jiao   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Computing the relative land subsidence at Venice, Italy, over the last fifty years [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
: Land subsidence causes various damages to the infrastructures and cultural heritage in many cities worldwide. Urban flooding is one of the main consequences of land subsidence in coastal cities, where it is exacerbated by sea-level rise accompanying ...
Da Lio, Cristina   +3 more
core   +3 more sources

Land subsidence

open access: yesEos, Transactions American Geophysical Union, 1976
Parts of the United States are sinking according to recent reports by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). A USGS report (‘Land Subsidence in the San Joaquin Valley, California, as of 1972,’ U.S. Geol. Surv. Prof. Pap. 437‐H) prepared in cooperation with the California Department of Water Resources states that at least 4300 mi2 of the economically ...
openaire   +1 more source

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