Monitoring subsidence at Messara basin using radar interferometry

作者：Papadaki Eirini S^*

来源：Environmental Earth Sciences, 2014, 72(6): 1965-1977.

DOI：10.1007/s12665-014-3105-0

• Differential interferometry
• Subsidence
• Groundwater withdrawal
• Messara

The Messara valley is the largest and most productive region in the island of Crete, Greece. Over the last 20 years, extensive exploitation of the aquifer mainly for agricultural purposes has led to a 40-m decrease in the level of groundwater. This investigation aims at mapping ground subsidence that might be induced by such overpumping of groundwater using conventional differential interferometry. A total of 29 ERS-1 and 2 SAR and 7 ALOS PALSAR images have been used for forming interferograms. The images used cover the period from 1992 to 2000 and 2007 to 2010, respectively. Processing of ALOS L-band data (lambda = 23.6 cm) has revealed a ground motion away from the Line of Sight of the satellite (LOS direction) that amounts to at least 3 cm/year for the period 2007-2010. Piezometric measurements and other geological parameters have also been analyzed.

• 出版日期2014-9