Subsidence Evolution of Antwerp Region, Belgium over 77 Years, Using Historical Levelling and GNSS Data and Recent Persistent Scatterers Interferometry Observations

peer reviewed ; A combination of historical levelling surveys, recent Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) campaign, and Persistent Scatterers Interferometry (PSI) measurements reveal that the harbour of Antwerp in Belgium has been sinking for the last 77 years. By integrating recently acquired data using PSI and historic databases, this study aims to provide the longest possible time series of data coverage for ground deformation in Antwerp. All data on subsidence in the area is assessed using multiple techniques and has been coherently included in a Geographic Information System (GIS).... Mehr ...

Verfasser: Choopani, Atefe
Declercq, Pierre-Yves
Verbeurgt, Jeffrey
De Doncker, Filip
Orban, Philippe
Devleeschouwer, Xavier
Dassargues, Alain
Dokumenttyp: conference paper not in proceedings
Erscheinungsdatum: 2023
Schlagwörter: PS-InSAR / Levelling / GNSS / Subsidence / Antwerp / Physical / chemical / mathematical & earth Sciences / Physique / chimie / mathématiques & sciences de la terre
Sprache: Englisch
Permalink: https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-26985267
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Link(s) : https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/302360

peer reviewed ; A combination of historical levelling surveys, recent Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) campaign, and Persistent Scatterers Interferometry (PSI) measurements reveal that the harbour of Antwerp in Belgium has been sinking for the last 77 years. By integrating recently acquired data using PSI and historic databases, this study aims to provide the longest possible time series of data coverage for ground deformation in Antwerp. All data on subsidence in the area is assessed using multiple techniques and has been coherently included in a Geographic Information System (GIS). The long-term impact of ground subsidence on the harbour potentially has both natural and human-caused sources. The oldest dataset is a map of altitude changes in Belgium, based on a comparison of two first-order levelling surveys conducted in 1946-1948 and between 1976-1980 (Pissart and Lambot, 1989). The iso-displacement map for the entire country was calculated by subtracting the elevation map of the second levelling network from the first. The harbour of Antwerp was crossed by two iso-displacement lines of -20 and -10 mm, representing the overall displacement values over 31 years. This historical data demonstrates that there was a minor sinking in the region likely linked to natural consolidation when the anthropogenic changes in the harbour had not been made. As the second dataset, three PSI datasets including ERS1/2, Envisat, and Sentinel-1A spanning the area in the periods 1991-2005, 2003-2010, and 2016-2019 respectively were collected and post-processed. The rate of subsidence in the Antwerp harbor and its city centre differs noticeably from one another, based on this data set. The average velocity of PS data in the city centre is 0.002, -0.06, and -0.6 mm/year and in the harbour is -0.83, -2.71, and -1.62 mm/year during the three time spans (Declercq et al., 2021). This study extends Sentinel-1A processing until 2022. Among the 33 permanent Real-Time Kinematic (RTK) GNSS stations, there are three available stations ...