Top

Published in:

2021 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

9. Measuring Subsidence in California and Its Impact on Water Conveyance Infrastructure

Authors : Cathleen E. Jones, Tom G. Farr, Zhen Liu, Megan M. Miller

Published in: Advances in Remote Sensing for Infrastructure Monitoring

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

Activate our intelligent search to find suitable subject content or patents.

search-config

AI-assisted search

Off

Abstract

Agriculture in the Central Valley, California, is made possible by surface water management infrastructure and the groundwater supply. However, groundwater overdraft leads to land subsidence, which in turn threatens flood control and water delivery infrastructure. Monitoring, modeling, and managing land subsidence are crucial to ensure the water supply and its infrastructure remains accessible for the future. Detection of land subsidence is difficult because it is a gradual deformation of the land surface over broad areas that can extend 10s of kilometers. Interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) is used to detect deformation over time using a series of repeat images that penetrate cloud cover. Satellite and airborne InSAR time series techniques identify and monitor the development of both valley-wide subsidence zones and individual, localized risks to infrastructure.

Dont have a licence yet? Then find out more about our products and how to get one now:

Springer Professional "Wirtschaft+Technik"

Online-Abonnement

Mit Springer Professional "Wirtschaft+Technik" erhalten Sie Zugriff auf:

über 102.000 Bücher
über 537 Zeitschriften

aus folgenden Fachgebieten:

Automobil + Motoren
Bauwesen + Immobilien
Business IT + Informatik
Elektrotechnik + Elektronik
Energie + Nachhaltigkeit
Finance + Banking
Management + Führung
Marketing + Vertrieb
Maschinenbau + Werkstoffe
Versicherung + Risiko

Jetzt Wissensvorsprung sichern!

inform now

Springer Professional "Technik"

Online-Abonnement

Mit Springer Professional "Technik" erhalten Sie Zugriff auf:

über 67.000 Bücher
über 390 Zeitschriften

aus folgenden Fachgebieten:

Automobil + Motoren
Bauwesen + Immobilien
Business IT + Informatik
Elektrotechnik + Elektronik
Energie + Nachhaltigkeit
Maschinenbau + Werkstoffe

Jetzt Wissensvorsprung sichern!

inform now

Springer Professional "Wirtschaft"

Online-Abonnement

Mit Springer Professional "Wirtschaft" erhalten Sie Zugriff auf:

über 67.000 Bücher
über 340 Zeitschriften

aus folgenden Fachgebieten:

Bauwesen + Immobilien
Business IT + Informatik
Finance + Banking
Management + Führung
Marketing + Vertrieb
Versicherung + Risiko

Jetzt Wissensvorsprung sichern!

inform now

previous chapter Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) in the Context of Bridge Monitoring

next chapter Earth Observation Based Understanding of Canadian Urban Form

Agram, P.S., D.P. Bekaert, S.E. Owen, and the ARIA team. 2018. Development of standardized interferometric products and online processing capabilities, abs. Washington, D.C.: American Geophysics Union Congress.

Bawden, G.W., W. Thatcher, R.S. Stein, K.W. Hudnut, and G. Peltzer. 2001. Tectonic contraction across Los Angeles after removal of groundwater pumping effects. Nature 412: 812–813.CrossRef

Bekaert, D.P.S., C.E. Jones, K. An, and M.H. Huang. 2018. Exploiting UAVSAR for a comprehensive analysis of subsidence in the Sacramento Delta. Remote Sensing Environment 220: 124–134. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2018.10.023.CrossRef

Bell, J.W., F. Amelung, A. Ferretti, M. Bianchi, and F. Novali. 2008. Permanent scatterer InSAR reveals seasonal an long-term aquifer-system response to groundwater pumping and artificial recharge. Water Resources Research 44: 2. https://doi.org/10.1029/2007WR006152.CrossRef

Bertoldi, G.L., R.H. Johnston, and K.D. Evenson. 1991. Ground water in the Central Valley, California: a summary report. U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1401-A, 44pp.

Borchers, J.W., and M. Carpenter. 2014. Land Subsidence from Groundwater Use in California. Report of findings to the California Water Foundation, http://www.californiawaterfoundation.org.

Chaussard, E., F. Amelung, H. Abidin, and S.-H. Hong. 2013. Sinking cities in Indonesia: ALOS PALSAR detects rapid subsidence due to groundwater and gas extraction. Remote Sensing Environment 128: 150–161.CrossRef

Chaussard, E., P. Milillo, R. Bürgmann, D. Perissin, E.J. Fielding, and B. Baker. 2017. Remote sensing of ground deformation for monitoring groundwater management practices: application to the Santa Clara Valley during the 2012–2015 California drought. Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth 122. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017JB014676.

Conway, B.D. 2016. Land subsidence and earth fissures in south-central and southern Arizona, USA. Hydrogeology Journal 24: 649–655. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10040-015-1329-z.CrossRef

Delbridge, B., R. Burgmann, E. Fielding, S. Hensley, and W. Schulz. 2016. Three-dimensional surface deformation derived from airborne interferometric UAVSAR: Application to the Slumgullion landslide. Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth 121: 3951–3977.CrossRef

Donnellan, A., J. Parker, S. Hensley, M. Pierce, J. Wang, and J. Rundle. 2014. UAVSAR observations of triggered slip on the Imperial, Superstition Hills, and East Elmore ranch faults associated with the 2010 M 7.2 El mayor-Cucapah earthquake. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 15: 815–829.CrossRef

Farr, T.G., and Z. Liu. 2015. Monitoring subsidence associated with groundwater dynamics in the Central Valley of California using interferometric radar. In Ch. 24 in remote sensing of the terrestrial water cycle, geophysical monograph, ed. V. Lakshmi, vol. 206. Washington, DC: American Geophysical Union, Wiley.

Farr, T.G., C. Jones, and Z. Liu. 2015. Progress report: subsidence in the Central Valley, California, submitted to CA DWR. Available at: http://www.nasa.gov/jpl/nasa-california-drought-causing-valley-land-to-sink.

———. 2017. Progress report: subsidence in the Central Valley, California, March 2015 – September 2016, submitted to CA DWR. Available at: http://www.water.ca.gov/waterconditions/docs/2017/JPL%20subsidence%20report%20final%20for%20public%20dec%202016.pdf.

Galloway, D.L., K.W. Hudnut, S.E. Ingebritsen, S.P. Phillips, G. Peltzer, F. Rogez, and P.A. Rosen. 1998. Detection of aquifer system compaction and land subsidence using interferometric synthetic aperture radar, Antelope Valley, Mojave Desert, California. Water Resources Research 34: 2573–2585.CrossRef

Galloway, D.L., D.R. Jones, and S.E. Ingebritsen. 1999. Land subsidence in the United States. In U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1182, 175pp.

Hoffmann, J., H.A. Zebker, D.L. Galloway, and F. Amelung. 2001. Seasonal subsidence and rebound in Las Vegas Valley, Nevada, observed by synthetic aperture radar interferometry. Water Resources Research 37: 1551–1566.CrossRef

Jones, C.E., K. An, R.G. Blom, J.D. Kent, E. Ivins, and D. Bekaert. 2016. Anthropogenic and geologic influences on subsidence in the vicinity of New Orleans, Louisiana. Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth 121: 3867–3887.CrossRef

Lanari, R., P. Lundgren, M. Manzo, and F. Casu. 2004. Satellite radar interferometry time series analysis of surface deformation for Los Angeles, California. Geophysical Research Letters 31. https://doi.org/10.1029/2004GL021294.

Lundgren, P., F. Casu, M. Manzo, A. Pepe, P. Berardino, E. Sansosti, and R. Lanari. 2004. Gravity and magma induced spreading of Mount Etna volcano revealed by satellite radar interferometry. Geophysical Research Letters 31: L04602.CrossRef

Lundgren, P., E.A. Hetland, Z. Liu, and E.J. Fielding. 2009. Southern San Andreas-San Jacinto fault system slip rates estimated from earthquake cycle models constrained by GPS and interferometric synthetic aperture radar observations. Journal of Geophysical Research 114: B02403. https://doi.org/10.1029/2008JB005996.CrossRef

Madsen, S.N., and H.A. Zebker. 1998. Imaging radar interferometry, ch. 6. In Principles and Applications of Imaging Radar, Manual of Remote Sensing, ed. F.M. Henderson and A.J. Lewis, vol. 2, 359, 866pp–380. New York: Wiley.

Massonnet, D. 1997. Satellite radar interferometry. Scientific American 276: 46–53.CrossRef

Miller, M.M., and M. Shirzaei. 2015. Spatiotemporal characterization of land subsidence and uplift in Phoenix using InSAR time series and wavelet transforms. Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth 120. https://doi.org/10.1002/2015JB012017.

Murray, K.D., and R.B. Lohman. 2018. Short-lived pause in Central California subsidence after heavy winter precipitation of 2017. Science Advances 4: eaar8144. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aar8144.CrossRef

Ojha, C., M. Shirzaei, S. Werth, D. Argus, and T. Farr. 2018. Sustained groundwater loss in California’s Central Valley exacerbated by intense drought periods. Water Resources Research 54. https://doi.org/10.1029/2017WR022250.

Ojha, C., S. Werth, and M. Shirzaei. 2019. Groundwater loss and aquifer system compaction in San Joaquin Valley during 2012–2015 drought. Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth 124. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JB016083.

Ozawa, T., and H. Ueda. 2011. Advanced interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) time series analysis suing interferograms of multiple-orbit tracks: a case study on Miyake-Jima. Journal of Geophysical Research 116: B12407. https://doi.org/10.1029/2011JB008489.CrossRef

Reeves, J.A., R.J. Knight, H. Zebker, W.A. Schreüder, P.S. Agram, and T.R. Lauknes. 2011. High quality InSAR data linked to seasonal change in hydraulic head for an agricultural area in the San Luis Valley, Colorado. Water Resources Research 47. https://doi.org/10.1029/2010WR010312.

Scheingross, J., B. Minchew, B. Mackey, M. Simons, M. Lamb, and S. Hensley. 2013. Fault-zone controls on the spatial distribution of slow-moving landslides. GSA Bulletin 125: 473–489. https://doi.org/10.1130/B30719.1.CrossRef

Sharma, P., C.E. Jones, J. Dudas, G. Bawden, and S. Deverel. 2016. Monitoring of subsidence with UAVSAR on Sherman Island in California’s Sacramento-San Joaquin delta. Remote Sensing of Environment 181: 218–236. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2016.04.012.CrossRef

Smith, R.G., R. Knight, J. Chen, J.A. Reeves, H.A. Zebker, T. Farr, and Z. Liu. 2017. Estimating the permanent loss of groundwater storage in the southern San Joaquin Valley, California. Water Resources Research 53: 2133–2148. https://doi.org/10.1002/2016WR019861.CrossRef

Sneed, M., and J.T. Brandt. 2007. Detection and Measurement of Land Subsidence Using Global Positioning System Surveying and interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar, Coachella Valley, California, 1996–2005: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2007–5251, 31pp.

———. 2013. Detection and Measurement of Land Subsidence Using Global Positioning System Surveying and Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar, Coachella Valley, California, 1996–2005: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2007–5251, v. 2.0, 31pp.

Sneed, M., S.V. Stork, and R.J. Laczniak. 2003. Aquifer-system characterization using InSAR. In US Geological Survey Subsidence Interest Group Conference Proceedings, 2001, ed. K.R. Prince and D.L. Galloway. USGS Open-File Rept. 03-308.

Title: Measuring Subsidence in California and Its Impact on Water Conveyance Infrastructure
Authors: Cathleen E. Jones
Tom G. Farr
Zhen Liu
Megan M. Miller
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Book: Advances in Remote Sensing for Infrastructure Monitoring
Print ISBN: 978-3-030-59108-3

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-59109-0

Copyright Year: 2021
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-59109-0_9

Springer Professional

Abstract

Please log in to get access to your license.

Dont have a licence yet? Then find out more about our products and how to get one now:

Springer Professional "Wirtschaft+Technik"

Springer Professional "Technik"

Springer Professional "Wirtschaft"

Premium Partner