An Underground-Mining Detection System Based on DInSAR

Author

Hu, Zhe ; Ge, Linlin ; Li, Xiaojing ; Zhang, Kui ; Zhang, Li

Author_Institution

Sch. of Surveying & Geospatial Eng., Univ. of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia

Volume

51

Issue

1

fYear

2013

fDate

Jan. 2013

Firstpage

615

Lastpage

625

Abstract

Underground mining easily causes casualties, and illegal mining is a major contributor to this issue. It is a challenge to locate and differentiate illegal mines from approved mines over a vast area. Over the past few years, our research in satellite differential radar interferometry (DInSAR) to monitor underground-mine-induced surface subsidence has demonstrated the reliability of DInSAR. In this paper, a DInSAR-based illegal-mining detection system (DIMDS) is proposed to exploit the geometric, spatial, and temporal characteristics of those subsidence patterns. Testing results over a coalfield in Asia have proven the efficiency, reliability, and cost effectiveness of DIMDS in finding out illegal mines.

Keywords

geophysical techniques; ground penetrating radar; radar interferometry; remote sensing by radar; synthetic aperture radar; Asia; DIMDS cost effectiveness; DInSAR reliability; DInSAR-based illegal-mining detection system; coalfield; satellite differential radar interferometry; subsidence patterns; under-ground-mine-induced surface subsidence; underground-mining detection system; Accuracy; Data mining; Interferometry; Monitoring; Noise; Satellites; Synthetic aperture radar; Differential SAR interferometry; subsidence gradient; underground-mining detection;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Geoscience and Remote Sensing, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0196-2892

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TGRS.2012.2202243

Filename

6244864