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Post-disaster assessment of 2017 catastrophic Xinmo landslide (China) by spaceborne SAR interferometry

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Timely and effective post-disaster assessment is of significance for the design of rescue plan, taking disaster mitigation measures and disaster analysis. Field investigation and remote sensing methods are the common ways to perform post-disaster assessment, which are usually limited by dense cloud coverage, potential risk, and tough transportation etc. in the mountainous area. In this paper, we employ the 2017 catastrophic Xinmo landslide (Sichuan, China) to demonstrate the feasibility of using spaceborne synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data to perform timely and effective post-disaster assessment. With C-band Sentinel-1 data, we propose to combine interferometric coherence to recognize the stable area, which helps us successfully identify landslide source area and boundaries in a space-based remote sensing way. Complementarily, X-band TanDEM-X SAR data allow us to generate a precise pre-failure high-resolution digital elevation model (DEM), which provides us the ability to accurately estimate the depletion volume and accumulation volume of Xinmo landslide. The results prove that spaceborne SAR can provide a quick, valuable, and unique assistance for post-disaster assessment of landslides from a space remote sensing way. At some conditions (bad weather, clouds, etc.), it can provide reliable alternative.

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This work was funded by Sichuan Science and Technology Plan Key Research and Development Program (Grant No. 2018SZ0339), National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 41801391), State Key Laboratory of Geodesy and Earth’s Dynamics Open fund (Grant No. SKLGED2018-5-3-E), The Funds for Creative Research Groups of China (Grant No. 41521002) and partially supported by the Spanish Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness (MINECO), the State Agency of Research (AEI), and European Funds for Regional Development (FEDER), under project TIN2014-55413-C2-2-P and by the Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport, under project PRX17/00439. This work was also supported by the National Environment Research Council (NERC) through the Centre for the Observation and Modeling of Earthquakes, Volcanoes and Tectonics (COMET, ref.: come30001), the LiCS project (ref. NE/K010794/1), the ESA-MOST DRAGON-4 project (ref. 32244), and the Hunan Province Key Laboratory of Coal Resources Clean-Utilization and Mine Environment Protection, Hunan University of Science and Technology (Ref. E21608).

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Geohazard Prevention and Geoenviroment Protection, Chengdu University of Technology, Chengdu, 610059, China

    Keren Dai, Qiang Xu, Xuanmei Fan, Xiujun Dong & Weile Li

  2. Chinese Academy of Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Geodesy and Earth’s Dynamics, Institute of Geodesy and Geophysics, Wuhan, 430077, China

    Keren Dai & Zhiwei Zhou

  3. College of Earth Sciences, Chengdu University of Technology, Chengdu, 610059, China

    Keren Dai, Jisong Gou & Peilian Ran

  4. COMET, School of Engineering, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, UK

    Zhenhong Li

  5. Departamento de Ingeniería Civil, Escuela Politécnica Superior, Universidad de Alicante, P.O. Box 99, 03080, Alicante, Spain

    Roberto Tomás

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Dai, K., Xu, Q., Li, Z. et al. Post-disaster assessment of 2017 catastrophic Xinmo landslide (China) by spaceborne SAR interferometry. Landslides 16, 1189–1199 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10346-019-01152-4

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