Evaluation of Post-Tunneling Aging Buildings Using the InSAR Nonuniform Settlement Index

Tunneling work, including the construction of municipal tunnels and metro lines, may disturb the structural health of aging buildings in densely built urban areas. Deformation monitoring and risk assessments of aging buildings are crucial to mitigate incidents and prevent losses of people’s lives an...

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Main Authors: Yuzhou Liu, Wenxi Cao, Zhongqi Shi, Qingrui Yue, Tiandong Chen, Lu Tian, Rumian Zhong, Yuke Liu
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Published: MDPI AG 2023-07-01
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/15/14/3467
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author Yuzhou Liu
Wenxi Cao
Zhongqi Shi
Qingrui Yue
Tiandong Chen
Lu Tian
Rumian Zhong
Yuke Liu
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Wenxi Cao
Zhongqi Shi
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description Tunneling work, including the construction of municipal tunnels and metro lines, may disturb the structural health of aging buildings in densely built urban areas. Deformation monitoring and risk assessments of aging buildings are crucial to mitigate incidents and prevent losses of people’s lives and properties. Time-series InSAR reveals spatio-temporal information about observed targets by extracting persistent scatterers of the structures, which can achieve the wide-range monitoring of buildings and infrastructure. However, solely relying on InSAR-derived general parameters (deformation rates and time series of specific points) cannot objectively assess the safety conditions of buildings. To address this issue, this study proposes an InSAR Nonuniform Settlement Index. First, the point targets of buildings are extracted through time-series InSAR processing. Then, using the points as inputs, the Nonuniform Settlement Index calculates the 3D settlement plane and the inclination angle of the plane corresponding to each building. In this way, the proposed Nonuniform Settlement Index acts as a subsequent analysis method of time-series InSAR to characterize the safety statuses of buildings. In our study, 147 scenes of COSMO-SkyMed images from 2013 to 2022 were used to inverse the nine-year deformation evolution of the tested area. After time-series InSAR processing and index analysis based on the above SAR datasets, cross-validation was implemented with static-level and manual investigation data. The approach was to use one aging, collapsed building affected by tunneling work, as well as the eight adjacent aging buildings. The results showed high consistency with the in situ data, which proves the efficiency of the proposed approach.
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spelling doaj.art-bcd3fdc8d9af4095934aa20482dd35242023-11-18T21:11:11ZengMDPI AGRemote Sensing2072-42922023-07-011514346710.3390/rs15143467Evaluation of Post-Tunneling Aging Buildings Using the InSAR Nonuniform Settlement IndexYuzhou Liu0Wenxi Cao1Zhongqi Shi2Qingrui Yue3Tiandong Chen4Lu Tian5Rumian Zhong6Yuke Liu7Shenzhen Technology Institute of Urban Public Safety, Shenzhen 518000, ChinaShenzhen Technology Institute of Urban Public Safety, Shenzhen 518000, ChinaShenzhen Technology Institute of Urban Public Safety, Shenzhen 518000, ChinaShenzhen Technology Institute of Urban Public Safety, Shenzhen 518000, ChinaShenzhen Technology Institute of Urban Public Safety, Shenzhen 518000, ChinaShenzhen Technology Institute of Urban Public Safety, Shenzhen 518000, ChinaShenzhen Technology Institute of Urban Public Safety, Shenzhen 518000, ChinaShenzhen Technology Institute of Urban Public Safety, Shenzhen 518000, ChinaTunneling work, including the construction of municipal tunnels and metro lines, may disturb the structural health of aging buildings in densely built urban areas. Deformation monitoring and risk assessments of aging buildings are crucial to mitigate incidents and prevent losses of people’s lives and properties. Time-series InSAR reveals spatio-temporal information about observed targets by extracting persistent scatterers of the structures, which can achieve the wide-range monitoring of buildings and infrastructure. However, solely relying on InSAR-derived general parameters (deformation rates and time series of specific points) cannot objectively assess the safety conditions of buildings. To address this issue, this study proposes an InSAR Nonuniform Settlement Index. First, the point targets of buildings are extracted through time-series InSAR processing. Then, using the points as inputs, the Nonuniform Settlement Index calculates the 3D settlement plane and the inclination angle of the plane corresponding to each building. In this way, the proposed Nonuniform Settlement Index acts as a subsequent analysis method of time-series InSAR to characterize the safety statuses of buildings. In our study, 147 scenes of COSMO-SkyMed images from 2013 to 2022 were used to inverse the nine-year deformation evolution of the tested area. After time-series InSAR processing and index analysis based on the above SAR datasets, cross-validation was implemented with static-level and manual investigation data. The approach was to use one aging, collapsed building affected by tunneling work, as well as the eight adjacent aging buildings. The results showed high consistency with the in situ data, which proves the efficiency of the proposed approach.https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/15/14/3467aging buildingrisk evaluationtime-series InSARNonuniform Settlement Indextunneling work
spellingShingle Yuzhou Liu
Wenxi Cao
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Tiandong Chen
Lu Tian
Rumian Zhong
Yuke Liu
Evaluation of Post-Tunneling Aging Buildings Using the InSAR Nonuniform Settlement Index
Remote Sensing
aging building
risk evaluation
time-series InSAR
Nonuniform Settlement Index
tunneling work
title Evaluation of Post-Tunneling Aging Buildings Using the InSAR Nonuniform Settlement Index
title_full Evaluation of Post-Tunneling Aging Buildings Using the InSAR Nonuniform Settlement Index
title_fullStr Evaluation of Post-Tunneling Aging Buildings Using the InSAR Nonuniform Settlement Index
title_full_unstemmed Evaluation of Post-Tunneling Aging Buildings Using the InSAR Nonuniform Settlement Index
title_short Evaluation of Post-Tunneling Aging Buildings Using the InSAR Nonuniform Settlement Index
title_sort evaluation of post tunneling aging buildings using the insar nonuniform settlement index
topic aging building
risk evaluation
time-series InSAR
Nonuniform Settlement Index
tunneling work
url https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/15/14/3467
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