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Investigating a reservoir bank slope displacement history with multi-frequency satellite SAR data

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Slope instability arisen along with dam construction is a common problem of great concern in reservoir areas. Thus, displacement monitoring of active slopes is of great importance for the safety of dam operation. The unstable Guobu slope is located only about 1.5 km away from Laxiwa hydropower station in upstream Yellow River. In this study, Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) datasets acquired by C-band Environmental Satellite (ENVISAT) Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar (ASAR), L-band Advanced Land Observing Satellite 2 (ALOS-2) Phased Array type L-band Synthetic Aperture Radar 2 (PALSAR-2), and X-band TerraSAR-X covering different evolution stages of Guobu slope were collected to investigate the displacement history so as to facilitate understanding of its deformation and failure mechanisms. The displacements occurred during the past decade were quantitatively identified for the first time by SAR pixel offset tracking analyses. The results show that before the reservoir impoundment, the maximum accumulative displacements on the slope were more than 7 m from 2003 to 2008, while the post-impoundment displacements also exceeded 7 m in just 1 year from September 2009 to September 2010. Furthermore, this slope is still in active deformation up to now. Nevertheless, the displacement rates seem decreased recently according to the interferometric results of TerraSAR-X data pairs from September 2015 to March 2016.

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Acknowledgements

This work was financially supported by the National Key Basic Research Program of China (Grant Nos. 2013CB733205, 2013CB733202, and 2013CB733204), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 61331016, 41521002, and 41271457), and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, China University of Geosciences (Wuhan) (Grant No. CUG170634). The ALOS-2 PALSAR-2, ENVISAT ASAR, and TerraSAR-X datasets were provided by Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) through the ALOS-RA4 project (PI 1247 and 1440), European Space Agency (ESA) through the Dragon-3 program (id 10569), and German Aerospace Center (DLR) through the TerraSAR-X New Mode AO project (GEO2520). The TanDEM-X DEM is provide by DLR through AO project (DEM_GEOL0632).

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  1. Faculty of Information Engineering, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, 430074, People’s Republic of China

    Xuguo Shi

  2. State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing, Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430079, People’s Republic of China

    Xuguo Shi, Lu Zhang, Menghua Li & Mingsheng Liao

  3. Collaborative Innovation Center for Geospatial Technology, Wuhan, 430079, People’s Republic of China

    Lu Zhang & Mingsheng Liao

  4. State Key Laboratory of Geohazard Prevention and Geoenvironment Protection, Chengdu University of Technology, Chengdu, 610059, People’s Republic of China

    Minggao Tang

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Shi, X., Zhang, L., Tang, M. et al. Investigating a reservoir bank slope displacement history with multi-frequency satellite SAR data. Landslides 14, 1961–1973 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10346-017-0846-3

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