We developed a ground truth database for urban areas from the Global Rural-Urban Mapping Project (GRUMP) Settlement Points gazetteer of populated place names by visually interpreting 3,734 urban points on satellite images, thus acquiring 2,144 urban and 1,388 non-urban data points. Our database contained many more urban data points than the existing databases, which had only 0 to 11 ground trut...

Shield tunneling construction of metro infrastructure will continuously disturb the soils. The ground surface will be subjected to uplift or subsidence due to the deep excavation and the extrusion and consolidation of the soils. Implementation of the simultaneous monitoring with the shield tunnel construction will provide an effective reference in controlling the shield driving, while how to de...

An InSAR analysis approach for identifying and extracting the temporarily coherent points (TCP) that exist between two SAR acquisitions and for determining motions of the TCP is presented for applications such as ground settlement monitoring. TCP are identified based on the spatial characteristics of the range and azimuth offsets of coherent radar scatterers. A method for coregistering TCP base...

BACKGROUND EuroAmerican land-use and its legacies have transformed forest structure and composition across the United States (US). More accurate reconstructions of historical states are critical to understanding the processes governing past, current, and future forest dynamics. Here we present new gridded (8x8km) reconstructions of pre-settlement (1800s) forest composition and structure from th...

This paper presents a new time-series InSAR analysis approach, Coherent Point Target Analysis (CPTA), to accurately map surface subsidence. The approach focus on the selection and analysis of sparse coherent point targets which exhibit phase stability over a long period of time. By jointly exploiting temporal and spatial characteristics of the interferometric phases collected from coherent targ...

If all parameters influencing sewer performance were known (or deterministic) then the decision making process associated to the planning of sewer replacement should be relatively straightforward. However, when trying to forecast service life, uncertainties arise considering the deterioration process, the variability of sewer pipe properties, environmental conditions or the used information res...