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Ground Settlement Monitoring using SAR Satellite Images

SAR 위성 영상을 이용한 도심지 지반 침하 모니터링 연구

  • Chungsik, Yoo (School of Civil, Architectural Engineering and Landscape Architecture, Sungkyunkwan Univ. Natural Sciences Campus)
  • Received : 2022.11.09
  • Accepted : 2022.12.15
  • Published : 2022.12.30
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Abstract

In this paper, fundamentals and recent development of the interferometric synthetic aperture radar, known as InSAR, technique for measuring ground deformation through satellite image analysis are presented together with case histories illustrating its applicability to urban ground deformation monitoring. A study area in Korea was selected and processed based on the muti-temporal time series InSAR analysis, namely SBAS (Small Baseline Subset)-InSAR and PS (Persistent Scatterers)-InSAR using Sentinel-1A SAR images acquired from the year 2014 onward available from European Space Agency Copernicus Program. The ground settlement of the study area for the temporal window of 2014-2022 was evaluated from the viewpoint of the applicability of the InSAR technique for urban infrastructure settlement monitoring. The results indicated that the InSAR technique can reasonably monitor long-term settlement of the study area in millimetric scale, and that the time series InSAR technique can effectively measure ground settlement that occurs over a long period of time as the SAR satellite provides images of the Korean Peninsula at regular time intervals while orbiting the earth. It is expected that the InSAR technique based on higher resolution SAR images with small temporal baseline can be a viable alternative to the traditional ground borne monitoring method for ground deformation monitoring in the 4th industrial era.

본 본문에서는 합성개구레이더(synthetic aperture radar) 위성 영상 이미지 분석을 통해 지표 침하를 측정하는 기술, 즉 합성개구레이다 간섭기법(InSAR, interferometric synthetic aperture radar)의 기본 이론 및 도심지 지표 변위 측정에 대한 적용성 검토 연구 내용을 다루었다. 먼저 InSAR 기법에 대한 기본 이론과 함께 기존 연구 동향을 제시하였으며 아울러 다중시기 SAR 영상을 이용한 시계열 분석 기법 중 SBAS-InSAR(SBAS-InSAR, Small Baseline Subset Interferometric SAR) 및 PS(Persistent Scatterers)-InSAR 기법을 연구 대상 지역에 적용하고 2014년~2021년 사이에 발생한 지역적 지반 침하를 평가하여 InSAR 기법의 도심지 지반 침하 모니터링에 구체적인 적용 가능성 여부를 평가하였다. 검토 결과 InSAR 기법은 연구대상 지역에서 발생한 시계열 침하 및 광역대 침하발생 경향을 현실적으로 모니터링할 수 있는 것으로 검토되었다. 아울러 SAR 영상을 이용한 시계열 간섭기법은 SAR 위성이 지구를 공전하면서 일정한 시간간격으로 한반도의 영상을 제공하므로 장기간에 걸쳐 발생하는 지반침하 모니터링에 효율적으로 적용할 수 있는 것으로 검토되었다. 향후 재방문 주기가 짧은 SAR 위성에서 촬영된 고해상도 SAR 영상이 활성화될 경우 InSAR 기법은 기존의 계측 기법을 대체하는 4차 산업 기술 기반의 광역대도심지 지반침하 모니터링 기술로 발전될 수 있을 것으로 평가되었다.

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Acknowledgement

This research was supported by National Research Foundation of Korea(Project Number: NRF-2021R1A2C 3011490. The financial support is gratefully acknowledged.

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