Integration of InSAR and GPS for hydraulic engineering

Interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) is a potential earth observation approach,and it has been demonstrated to have a variety of applications in measuring ground movement,urban subsidence and landslides.Currently InSAR provides the ability to map accurate DEM and measure ground deformation to sub-centimeter accuracy.However,many factors affect InSAR to measure ground movement since dam constructions are built in a large scale area with a complicated climate and unstable geology.This paper discusses potential applications of integrated InSAR and GPS to monitor a large-scale ground movement due to hydropower developments.The integration of InSAR and GPS can provide a cost-effective means for monitoring deformation of hydropower developments.Moreover,two novel methods,both the improved spatial interpolating method and estimation of 3D surface motion velocities method,are proposed and the experimental results and analysis are given in this paper.