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Long-Term Spatiotemporal Evolution Of Land Subsidence In Konya Metropolitan Area (Turkey) Based On Multisensor Sar Data, Nurdan Şi̇reci̇, Gökhan Aslan, Zi̇yadi̇n Çakir

Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences

We have studied the spatiotemporal evolution of surface deformation in Konya city and its vicinity using advanced multitemporal synthetic aperture radar techniques with SAR data acquired by Envisat, ALOS-1, and Sentinel-1 A/B satellites between 2004 and 2020. Velocity maps and time series show that the city has been subsiding with varying rates in space and time since 2004. The pattern of deformation shows two main lobes of subsidence centered in the western and eastern sides of the city with a nondeforming north-south trending narrow zone in between. Subsidence rate increases from a few cm/yr to 11 cm/yr between 2014 and …