ASSESSING GROUND SUBSIDENCE PHENOMENA WITH PERSISTENT SCATTERER INTERFEROMETRY DATA IN WESTERN THESSALY, GREECE

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Published: Jul 27, 2016
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12681/bgsg.11892
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Surface deformation remote sensing techniques water table fluctuation
I. Ilia
National Technical University of Athens, School of Mining and Metallurgical Engineering, Laboratory of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology
C. Loupasakis
National Technical University of Athens, School of Mining and Metallurgical Engineering, Laboratory of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology
P. Tsangaratos
National Technical University of Athens, School of Mining and Metallurgical Engineering, Laboratory of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology
Abstract

The main objective of the present study was to investigate ground subsidence in the wider area of Farsala, western Thessaly basin, by means of remote sensing techniques and to identify potential geo environmental mechanisms that contribute to the development of the observed surface fractures affecting the site. In this context, a set of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images, acquired in 1995-2003 by the European Space Agency (ESA) satellites ERS1 and ERS2 and processed with the Persistent Scatterer Interferometry (PSI) technique by the German Space Agency (DLR) during the Terrafirma project, were evaluated in order to investigate spatial and temporal patterns of deformation. Groundwater table levels of three water boreholes within the research area were processed providing the mean piezometric level drawdown and the mean annual drawdown rate. In addition, a quantitative comparison between the deformation subsidence rate and the thickness of the compressible sediments was also performed. The outcomes of the present study indicated a clear relationship in the subsidence deformation rate and the groundwater fluctuation and also a correlation between the depth of the bedrock and the deformation subsidence rate. Overall, the multitemporal SAR interferometry (DInSAR) data are proved as a valuable and suitable technique for increasing knowledge about the extent and the rate of the deformations in the current study area, proved to be affected with an increasing intensity. 

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