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In this study, surface deformation monitoring was conducted in a high mountain gorge region in Yunnan Province, China, using Sentinel-1A images of ascending and descending tracks. The tropospheric delay in the InSAR interferogram was corrected using the Linear, Generic Atmospheric Correction Online Service for InSAR (GACOS) and ERA-5 meteorological reanalysis data (ERA5) methods. The correction effect was evaluated by combining phase standard deviation, semi-variance function, elevation correlation, and global navigation satellite system (GNSS) deformation monitoring results. The mean value of the phase standard deviation (Aver) of the linear correction interferogram and the threshold value (sill) of the semi-variogram were reduced by \u201320.98% and \u201341%, respectively, while the accuracy of the InSAR deformation points near the GNSS site was increased by 58%. The results showed that the three methods reduced the tropospheric delay error of InSAR deformation monitoring by different degrees in low-latitude mountains and valleys. 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