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Ground Subsidence Monitoring in Hong Kong with Satellite SAR Interferometry X.L. Ding, G.X. Liu, Z.W. Li, Z.L. Li, and Y.Q. Chen Abstract General Assessment of Interferometric Quality in Hong Kong Ground settlement has long been a problem in Hong Kong, as most usable land in Hong Kong was reclaimed from the sea. Temporal Decorrelations Ground settlement may affect building structures and under- Six single-look-complex (SLC) SAR images acquired with the ground facilities such as water supply and sewage systems C-band SAR sensors onboard the ERS-1/2 during 1996–1999 built on the land. Measurements of ground settlement can over this region (frame 3159, track 404) are used to assess the provide valuable data for assessing the impacts of ground set- temporal correlations between SAR images. All the images tlement and for improving designs of future land reclamation were acquired at around 1054 local time along descending projects. orbits of the satellites (travelling north to south and looking Experiments have been carried out to assess the perfor- to west). Figure 1a shows the flight direction (azimuth 191.8°) mance of INSAR in the environment of Hong Kong especially and the ground coverage of the images. The fifteen possible in- the temporal decorrelations of SAR images and the potential terferometric combinations of the images are listed in Table 1. atmospheric effects on INSAR measurements, and to use As seen from the SAR amplitude image given in Figure 2, INSAR to study the ground settlement problem in Hong Kong. the land area of HK is gen