TY - GEN
T1 - Land Surface Movement Driven by Groundwater Dynamics
AU - Elkamali, M.
AU - Loupasakis, C.
AU - Papouptsis, I.
AU - Abuelgasim, A.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by a grant from the United Arab Emirates University (UAEU) National Center for Water and Energy under grant number 31R155-Research Center-NWC-3-2017.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 EAGE Middle East Geomechanics Workshop: Lessons Learned and New Frontiers. All rights reserved.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Land surface subsidence is a catastrophic phenomenon that leads to a loss of lives and infrastructures. In arid climates, such as the United Arab Emirates (UAE), water resources are limited and rely on groundwater as the main water resource for domestic and agricultural sectors. The increasing demand for water in the country results in overexploiting the groundwater resources which can be the main cause for land surface subsidence. Monitoring of land surface subsidence can be achieved by various techniques such as leveling survey, Global Positioning System (GPS), and Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) techniques. In this study, the InSAR technique has been implemented with the Sentinel-1A images to monitor land surface subsidence over the agricultural areas in the UAE between 2015 and 2019. The results showed significant ground subsidence in spatial accordance with agricultural farms. Furthermore, the detected subsidence has been confirmed by field observation of infrastructure failures over the deformed area.
AB - Land surface subsidence is a catastrophic phenomenon that leads to a loss of lives and infrastructures. In arid climates, such as the United Arab Emirates (UAE), water resources are limited and rely on groundwater as the main water resource for domestic and agricultural sectors. The increasing demand for water in the country results in overexploiting the groundwater resources which can be the main cause for land surface subsidence. Monitoring of land surface subsidence can be achieved by various techniques such as leveling survey, Global Positioning System (GPS), and Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) techniques. In this study, the InSAR technique has been implemented with the Sentinel-1A images to monitor land surface subsidence over the agricultural areas in the UAE between 2015 and 2019. The results showed significant ground subsidence in spatial accordance with agricultural farms. Furthermore, the detected subsidence has been confirmed by field observation of infrastructure failures over the deformed area.
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U2 - 10.3997/2214-4609.2022614003
DO - 10.3997/2214-4609.2022614003
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85130054597
T3 - EAGE Middle East Geomechanics Workshop: Lessons Learned and New Frontiers
BT - EAGE Middle East Geomechanics Workshop
PB - European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers, EAGE
T2 - 2022 EAGE Middle East Geomechanics Workshop: Lessons Learned and New Frontiers
Y2 - 1 March 2022 through 3 March 2022
ER -