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GRACE missions are dedicated to modeling the temporal variations of the Earth\u2019s gravity field and mass transportation in the Earth\u2019s surface, whereas Sentinel-1 collects synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data, which enables us to measure the ground movements accurately. Extraction of large volumes of water and oil decreases the reservoir pressure and form compaction and, consequently, land subsidence occurs, which can be analyzed by both GRACE and Sentinel-1 data. In this paper, large-scale groundwater storage (GWS) changes are studied using the GRACE monthly gravity field models together with different hydrological models over the major oil reservoirs in Sudan, that is, Heglig, Bamboo, Neem, Diffra, and Unity-area oil fields. Then, we correlate the results with the available oil wells production data for the period of 2003\u20132012. In addition, using the only freely available Sentinel-1 data, collected between November 2015 and April 2019, the ground surface deformation associated with this oil and water depletion is studied. Owing to the lack of terrestrial geodetic monitoring data in Sudan, the use of GRACE and Sentinel-1 satellite data is very valuable to monitor water and oil storage changes and their associated land subsidence over our region of interest. Our results show that there is a significant correlation between the GRACE-based GWS anomalies (\u0394GWS) and extracted oil and water volumes. The trend of \u0394GWS changes due to water and oil depletion ranged from \u201318.5 \u00b1 6.3 to \u20136.2 \u00b1 1.3 mm\/year using the CSR GRACE monthly solutions and the best tested hydrological model in this study. Moreover, our Sentinel-1 SAR data analysis using the persistent scatterer interferometry (PSI) method shows a high rate of subsidence, that is, \u201324.5 \u00b1 0.85, \u201323.8 \u00b1 0.96, \u201314.2 \u00b1 0.85, and \u20136 \u00b1 0.88 mm\/year over Heglig, Neem, Diffra, and Unity-area oil fields, respectively. The results of this study can help us to control the integrity and safety of operations and infrastructure in that region, as well as to study the groundwater\/oil storage behavior.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs12111792","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,6,2]],"date-time":"2020-06-02T09:19:27Z","timestamp":1591089567000},"page":"1792","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":13,"title":["Satellite Monitoring of Mass Changes and Ground Subsidence in Sudan\u2019s Oil Fields Using GRACE and Sentinel-1 Data"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"12","author":[{"given":"Nureldin A.A.","family":"Gido","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Division of Geodesy and satellite positioning, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), SE-10044 Stockholm, Sweden"},{"name":"Faculty of Engineering and Sustainable Development, University of G\u00e4vle, SE-80176 G\u00e4vle, Sweden"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-7899-5421","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Hadi","family":"Amin","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Engineering and Sustainable Development, University of G\u00e4vle, SE-80176 G\u00e4vle, Sweden"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Mohammad","family":"Bagherbandi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Division of Geodesy and satellite positioning, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), SE-10044 Stockholm, Sweden"},{"name":"Faculty of Engineering and Sustainable Development, University of G\u00e4vle, SE-80176 G\u00e4vle, Sweden"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-1744-7004","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Faramarz","family":"Nilfouroushan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Engineering and Sustainable Development, University of G\u00e4vle, SE-80176 G\u00e4vle, Sweden"},{"name":"Department of Geodetic Infrastructure, Geodata Division, Lantm\u00e4teriet, SE-80182 G\u00e4vle, Sweden"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,6,2]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Sun, A.Y., Scanlon, B.R., AghaKouchak, A., and Zhang, Z. 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