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Land subsidence characteristics of Jakarta between 1997 and 2005, as estimated using GPS surveys

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Jakarta is the capital city of Indonesia with a population of about 12 million people, inhabiting an area of about 625 km2. It is well known that several areas in Jakarta are subsiding rapidly. There are four different types of land subsidence that can be expected to occur in the Jakarta basin, namely: subsidence due to groundwater extraction, subsidence induced by the load of constructions (i.e., settlement of high compressibility soil), subsidence caused by natural consolidation of alluvial soil and tectonic subsidence. In addition to the leveling method, Global Positioning System (GPS) survey methods have been used to study land subsidence in Jakarta. In this paper, we characterize subsidence in the Jakarta basin using eight episodic/campaign GPS surveys between 1997 and 2005. The estimated subsidence rates are 1–10 cm/year. The observed subsidence rates in several locations show a positive correlation with known abstraction volumes of groundwater extraction. These basin-wide series of GPS measurements show how this type of measurement can play an important role in multiple public policy decision making in this rapidly growing area.

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This research has been conducted using research grants from the Ministry of Science and Technology of Indonesia, Ministry of National Education of Indonesia and ITB Research Grant 2005. The GPS surveys were conducted by the Geodesy Research Division of ITB, the National Coordinating Agency for Survey and Mapping (BAKOSURTANAL) of Indonesia and students. Two reviewers are thanked for providing critical and useful comments that improved the quality of this paper. The assistance of Dr. Irwan Meilano in improving the quality of some Figures is gratefully acknowledged.

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  1. Geodesy Research Division, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Institute of Technology Bandung (ITB), Jl. Ganesha 10, Bandung, 40132, Indonesia

    Hasanuddin Z. Abidin, H. Andreas, Dudy Darmawan & M. Gamal

  2. National Coordinating Agency for Survey and Mapping (BAKOSURTANAL), Cibinong, Bogor, Indonesia

    Rochman Djaja

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Abidin, H.Z., Andreas, H., Djaja, R. et al. Land subsidence characteristics of Jakarta between 1997 and 2005, as estimated using GPS surveys. GPS Solut 12, 23–32 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10291-007-0061-0

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