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Investigating mining-induced surface subsidence and potential damages based on SBAS-InSAR monitoring and GIS techniques: a case study

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Surface subsidence threatens the structural stability of ground facilities located in mining-induced subsidence areas. Clarifying and evaluating the influence of surface subsidence can inform the construction and maintenance of various ground facilities, such as buildings, roads, and bridges. In this paper, we investigated mining-induced surface subsidence and areas of potential damage in Yangquan City, Shanxi Province, by exploiting small-baseline set interferometric synthetic aperture radar (SBAS-InSAR) monitoring and geographic information system (GIS) techniques. More specifically, we first investigated the distributions of subsidence areas and subsidence rates in Yangquan City from June 16th, 2016, to December 1st, 2016, by exploiting SBAS-InSAR monitoring. We then classified ground facilities, such as buildings, highways and railways, and identified their distributions using spatial analysis using GIS. Finally, we integrated the results of the two techniques to evaluate the potential damages induced by surface subsidence for various ground facilities. We found that, overall, (1) surface subsidence has seriously developed in the Yangquan Mine and (2) some of the subsidence areas exist in facilities with high-level restrictions, such as high-rise buildings, highways, and railways, which may cause potential damage. Our work presented in this paper could be referred to and applied to other similar cases.

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This research was jointly supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11602235 and 41772326), the Fundamental Research Funds for China Central Universities (2652018091), the Geological Survey Project of CGS (DD20190593), and Major Program of Science and Technology of Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (2020AA002).

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Liu, Z., Mei, G., Sun, Y. et al. Investigating mining-induced surface subsidence and potential damages based on SBAS-InSAR monitoring and GIS techniques: a case study. Environ Earth Sci 80, 817 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12665-021-09726-z

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