| Title | InSAR measurement of surface deformations in south Ontario |
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| Licence | Please note the adoption of the Open Government Licence - Canada
supersedes any previous licences. |
| Author | Li, J; Wang, S ;
Michel, C; Russell, H A J |
| Source | Regional-Scale Groundwater Geoscience in Southern Ontario: An Ontario Geological Survey, Geological Survey of Canada, and Conservation Ontario Geoscientists Open House; by Russell, H A J; Ford, D; Holysh, S; Priebe, E H; Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 8528,
2019 p. 19, https://doi.org/10.4095/313591  Open
Access |
| Year | 2019 |
| Alt Series | Ontario Geological Survey, Open File Report 6349 |
| Publisher | Natural Resources Canada |
| Publisher | Government of Ontario |
| Meeting | Regional-Scale Groundwater Geoscience in Southern Ontario: Open House; Guelph; CA; February 27-28, 2019 |
| Document | open file |
| Lang. | English |
| Media | on-line; digital |
| Related | This publication is contained in Regional-Scale Groundwater
Geoscience in Southern Ontario: An Ontario Geological Survey, Geological Survey of Canada, and Conservation Ontario Geoscientists Open House |
| File format | pdf |
| Province | Ontario |
| NTS | 30; 31B; 31C; 31D; 31E; 31G; 40; 41A; 41G; 41H/03; 41H/04; 41H/05; 41H/06; 41H/12; 41H/13 |
| Area | Southern Ontario; Great Lakes |
| Lat/Long WENS | -84.0000 -74.0000 46.0000 41.5000 |
| Subjects | hydrogeology; geophysics; regional geology; surficial geology/geomorphology; groundwater; aquifers; remote sensing; satellite imagery; radar methods; deformation; subsidence; sediments; hydrologic
environment; groundwater levels; mapping techniques; Global positioning systems |
| Program | Groundwater Geoscience Aquifer Assessment & support to mapping |
| Released | 2019 02 08 |
| Abstract | Detection of surface deformation can be measured using InSar, a geodetic technique that calculates the interference pattern which results from a difference in phase between images acquired by synthetic
aperture radar (SAR). Ground surface deformation, in particular land subsidence is caused by numerous factors, such as: tectonic motion, sediment compaction, thawing permafrost, increased surface loading, Glacial Isostatic Adjustment (GIA),
hydro-chemical erosion of karst, decomposition of organic material in soils, mining, anthropogenic fluid withdrawal and surface water/drainage management. Groundwater applications have commonly been completed in areas of extreme subsidence due to
dehydration and collapse of fine grained sediment textures; such as in the central valley of California, Nevada, and the Mexico city area. This study examines whether there is potential application of this technique to measure changes in surface
elevation in southern Ontario and whether it can be related to changes in groundwater storage. For the southern Ontario study five datasets were used to assess the ground surface deformation and the hydrogeological/hydrologic conditions within the
imagery extent. Datasets included: a set of 40 Radarsat-2 images spanning five years, GPS weekly solutions, Real-time kinematic (RTK) gps data, groundwater levels, terrestrial water storage data derived from GRACE satellites and hydrologic data from
the Provincial Groundwater Monitoring Network (PGMN).
Differential synthetic aperture radar interferometry (D-InSAR) has sub-centimetre precision and high spatial resolution over a large area. To eliminate some of the noise and to reduce
geometrical distortions (multilook) images were averaged to a 50 m resolution. A stable reference site RTK TWOO was used a reference point. The TWOO GPS measurements were then added to the InSAR time series deformation maps.
Obtaining a coherent
signal was difficult and resulted in clustering of signal return from urbanized areas. The roofs and corners of the buildings in urbanized areas can form permanent scatterers, resulting in a more coherent signal. Across the study area, an annual rate
of 1 mm to 10 mm of subsidence is observed. The greatest amount of subsidence (> 8 mm/year) is observed along the shore of Lake Ontario. In the absence of a field campaign to support validation the study has concluded that any viable signal
attributed to specific geological - hydrogeological controls is within the signal-noise ratio of the study. |
| Summary | (Plain Language Summary, not published)
Volume of abstracts for Ontario Geological Survey and Geological Survey of Canada groundwater geoscience Open house with Conservation Ontario. |
| GEOSCAN ID | 313591 |
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