Remote Sensing, Volume (11), No (4), Year (2019-2) , Pages (377-399)

Title : ( How Groundwater Level Fluctuations and Geotechnical Properties Lead to Asymmetric Subsidence: A PSInSAR Analysis of Land Deformation over a Transit Corridor in the Los Angeles Metropolitan Area )

Authors: Mohammad Khorrami , Babak Alizadeh , Erfan Ghasemi Tousi , Mahyar Shakerian , Yasser Maghsoudi , Peyman Rahgozar ,

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Abstract

Los Angeles has experienced ground deformations during the past decades. These ground displacements can be destructive for infrastructure and can reduce the land capacity for groundwater storage. Therefore, this paper seeks to evaluate the existing ground displacement patterns along a new metro tunnel in Los Angeles, known as the Sepulveda Transit Corridor. The goal is to find the most crucial areas suffering from subsidence or uplift and to enhance the previous reports in this metropolitan area. For this purpose, we applied a Persistent Scatterer Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar using 29 Sentinel-1A acquisitions from June 2017 to May 2018 to estimate the deformation rate. The assessment procedure demonstrated a high rate of subsidence in the Inglewood field that is near the study area of the Sepulveda Transit Corridor with a maximum deformation rate of 30 mm/yr. Finally, data derived from in situ instruments as groundwater level variations, GPS observations, and soil properties were collected and analyzed to interpret the results. Investigation of geotechnical boreholes indicates layers of fine-grained soils in some parts of the area and this observation confirms the necessity of more detailed geotechnical investigations for future constructions in the region. Results of investigating line-of-sight displacement rates showed asymmetric subsidence along the corridor and hence we proposed a new framework to evaluate the asymmetric subsidence index that can help the designers and decision makers of the project to consider solutions to control the current subsidence.

Keywords

subsidence monitoring; persistent scatterer interferometry; asymmetric subsidence; groundwater level variation; Sepulveda Transit Corridor; Los Angeles
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@article{paperid:1077070,
author = {Khorrami, Mohammad and Babak Alizadeh and Erfan Ghasemi Tousi and Shakerian, Mahyar and Yasser Maghsoudi and Peyman Rahgozar},
title = {How Groundwater Level Fluctuations and Geotechnical Properties Lead to Asymmetric Subsidence: A PSInSAR Analysis of Land Deformation over a Transit Corridor in the Los Angeles Metropolitan Area},
journal = {Remote Sensing},
year = {2019},
volume = {11},
number = {4},
month = {February},
issn = {2072-4292},
pages = {377--399},
numpages = {22},
keywords = {subsidence monitoring; persistent scatterer interferometry; asymmetric subsidence; groundwater level variation; Sepulveda Transit Corridor; Los Angeles},
}

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%0 Journal Article
%T How Groundwater Level Fluctuations and Geotechnical Properties Lead to Asymmetric Subsidence: A PSInSAR Analysis of Land Deformation over a Transit Corridor in the Los Angeles Metropolitan Area
%A Khorrami, Mohammad
%A Babak Alizadeh
%A Erfan Ghasemi Tousi
%A Shakerian, Mahyar
%A Yasser Maghsoudi
%A Peyman Rahgozar
%J Remote Sensing
%@ 2072-4292
%D 2019

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