Land Subsidence Detection in Tan My-Thuong Tan Open Pit Mine and Surrounding Areas by Time Series of Sentinel-1 Images

Abstract

Open-pit or underground mining both causes environmental impacts such as air, soil, water pollution, etc., especially causing land subsidence of mines and surrounding areas. Research on mining subsidence is often carried out by field survey, the advantage of this method is high accuracy, but it is usually applied in a small scale. Recently, with the development of radar technology, there have been many studies applying this Radar Interferometry technique to determine surface subsidence over a wide range with a few millimeters accuracy. In this paper, 24 Sentinel-1 images were used as input materials, using the Permanent Scatter Interferometry (PSInSAR) method to determine the land subsidence of the Tan My-Thuong Tan quarries and surrounding areas. The results were compared with the average annual subsidence of 20 surveying points using GNSS technology from 1/2018 to 3/2020. The correlation coefficient of annual average land subsidence of the two methods is 0.83, showing the feasibility of applying InSAR Sentinel-1 data processed by PSInSAR method for determining mine surface deformation and surrounding area.