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Methods of Radar Interferometry and Optical Satellite Image Processing to Study Negative Effects on the Environment (a Case Study of the Baikalsk Pulp and Paper Mill)

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The results of the study of the condition of the territory and waste deposits of the Baikalsk Pulp and Paper Mill using radar and optical satellite data are presented. The Earth’s surface deformations in the area of waste deposits are analyzed using the method of differential radar interferometry applied to the ALOS-2 PALSAR-2 L-band radar satellite data. By processing the C-band radar data from the Sentinel-1B satellite using the method of multitemporal SBAS interferometric measurements, two blocks are found in the study area, one of which is rising and the other one of which is subsiding. The difference between deformations over the period from 2017 to 2020 reached 17–19 mm. A significant correlation in determining waste water content between radar-backscatter intensity measurements (Sentinel-1B satellite) and optical data (Sentinel-2A/B satellites) using the NDWI water index is revealed.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

We thank the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency JAXA for providing ALOS-1/2 PALSAR-1/2 radar data, project no. PI 3402. We are grateful to the German Aerospace Center for providing data from the TerraSAR-X/TanDEM-X, satellite radar-interferometric system project no. XTI_HYDR0485, “Study of Cryogenic Processes in Siberia by TanDEM-X Interferometry.”

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This work was supported by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation, project no. 075-15-2020-776.

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  2. Institute of Physical Material Science, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, 670047, Ulan-Ude, Russia

    T. N. Chimitdorzhiev, A. V. Dmitriev & P. N. Dagurov

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Bondur, V.G., Chimitdorzhiev, T.N., Dmitriev, A.V. et al. Methods of Radar Interferometry and Optical Satellite Image Processing to Study Negative Effects on the Environment (a Case Study of the Baikalsk Pulp and Paper Mill). Izv. Atmos. Ocean. Phys. 57, 1527–1537 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0001433821120045

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