Potential of small-baseline SAR interferometry for monitoring land subsidence related to underground coal fires: Wuda (Northern China) case study

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 115, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 257-268

  Jiang, Liming ^a,b   Lin, Hui ^a   Ma, Jianwei ^c   Kong, Bing ^c   Wang, Yao ^c  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics   (China)

^c Shenhua (Beijing) Remote Sensing and Geo engineering Company Ltd   (China)

Author keywords

Coal fires; Land subsidence; Small baseline SAR interferometry; Wuda coalfield

Indexed keywords

COAL DEPOSITS; FIRES; INTERFEROMETRY; SUBSIDENCE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

COAL FIELDS; COAL FIRES; FIELD INVESTIGATION; LAND SUBSIDENCE; SAR INTERFEROMETRY; SURFACE DISPLACEMENT; SURFACE SUBSIDENCE; TEMPORAL SIGNALS;

COAL;

COAL SEAM; FIRE; MONITORING; RADAR INTERFEROMETRY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SUBSIDENCE; SUBTERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

CHINA; NEI MONGGOL; WUDA;

EID: 78650879029     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2010.08.008     Document Type: Article

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