Environmental Researches

Environmental Researches

Investigating the amount of ground subsidence using radar interferometric technique (D-InSAR) in Mahshahr port

Document Type : Original Article

Authors
Leila Ebrahimi 1
Maraym Ilanloo 2
1 Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Chalus Branch, Islamic Azad University, Chalus, Iran
2 Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Mahshahr Branch, Islamic Azad University, Mahshahr, Iran
10.22034/eiap.2025.217506
Abstract
Land subsidence is one of the important geomorphic hazards that has a slow movement and leaves destructive effects in the long term. In this research, the data of centile A1 in the 8-year period from 2015 to 2023 has been used as a spatial analysis of displacement. And the software and radar interferometric method (SNAP), the changes of the saddle level have been extracted in the mentioned time period. In addition, field observations of validation and examination of research results were carried out. According to the results obtained during the period of 2015 to 2017, the amount of this subsidence was equal to 0.79 cm in the southwest part. In the northwestern parts of the region, there is a bulge. The amount of protrusion is about 1 meter and 32 centimeters. The largest increase occurred in this period. In the period from 2017 to 2019, the amount of subsidence is equal to 13 centimeters and the amount of elevation is about 68 centimeters. which was more than the period from 2015 to 2017. In this period, the extent of subsidence is greater and covers the entire southern region, which is due to the retreat of sea water and the phenomenon of tides. In the period from 2019 to 2021, the elevation is 0.089 centimeters in the southern regions and the subsidence is 39 centimeters in the northern regions.
Keywords
uplift
subsidence
rice cultivation
underground water
Mahshahr port
Subjects
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Environmental Researches
Volume 15, Issue 30
Recerches
March 2025
Pages 179-194