Affected by the natural environmental and human activity factors,significant seasonal differences appear on the regional scattering characteristic and ground deformation of saline soil.Interferometric decorrelation du...Affected by the natural environmental and human activity factors,significant seasonal differences appear on the regional scattering characteristic and ground deformation of saline soil.Interferometric decorrelation due to season replacement limits the conventional multi-temporal interferometric synthetic aperture radar(MT-InSAR)technique and its application in such areas.To extend the monitoring capability in the salt desert area,we select a vast basin of saline soil around Howz-e-Soltan Salt Lake of Iran as the study area and present an improved MTInSAR for experimental research.Based on 131 C-band Sentinel-1 A images collected between October 2014 to July 2020,1896 refined interferograms in total are selected from all interferogram candidates.Interferometric coherence analysis shows that the coherence in the saline soil area has an apparent seasonal variation,and the soil moisture affected by the precipitation may be the main factor that leads to the seasonal variation.Subsequently,the deformation characteristics of saline soil under different environmental conditions and human activity factors are compared and analyzed in detail.Related deformation mechanisms of different saline soil types are initially revealed by combining interferometric coherence,meteorological data,and engineering geological characteristics of saline soil.Related results would provide reference for the large-scale infrastructure construction engineering in similar saline soil areas.展开更多
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(41771402,41804009)the National Key R&D Program of China(2017YFB0502700)Sichuan Science and Technology Program(2018JY0564,2019ZDZX0042,2020JDTD0003)。
文摘Affected by the natural environmental and human activity factors,significant seasonal differences appear on the regional scattering characteristic and ground deformation of saline soil.Interferometric decorrelation due to season replacement limits the conventional multi-temporal interferometric synthetic aperture radar(MT-InSAR)technique and its application in such areas.To extend the monitoring capability in the salt desert area,we select a vast basin of saline soil around Howz-e-Soltan Salt Lake of Iran as the study area and present an improved MTInSAR for experimental research.Based on 131 C-band Sentinel-1 A images collected between October 2014 to July 2020,1896 refined interferograms in total are selected from all interferogram candidates.Interferometric coherence analysis shows that the coherence in the saline soil area has an apparent seasonal variation,and the soil moisture affected by the precipitation may be the main factor that leads to the seasonal variation.Subsequently,the deformation characteristics of saline soil under different environmental conditions and human activity factors are compared and analyzed in detail.Related deformation mechanisms of different saline soil types are initially revealed by combining interferometric coherence,meteorological data,and engineering geological characteristics of saline soil.Related results would provide reference for the large-scale infrastructure construction engineering in similar saline soil areas.
