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Modified threshold and improved subwaveform threshold retrackers were used in the study to improve the accuracy of altimetric land surface heights (LSHs) in Southwestern Taiwan. Results indicate that the vertical motion rates derived from both retrackers coincide with those calculated by 1843 precise leveling points, with a correlation coefficient of 0.96 and mean differences of 0.43 and 0.52 cm\/yr (standard deviations: 0.61 and 0.69 cm\/yr). In addition, wet troposphere delay by precise point positioning with the use of Global Navigation Satellite System data was employed to evaluate the impact of the delay on the estimates of vertical motion rates compared with that traditionally derived from the European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts model when the microwave radiometer is  non-functional over lands. The accuracies of retracked altimetric land motion rates corrected by wet troposphere delays derived from both models show no remarkable differences in the Tuku and Yuanchang areas because the accuracy of retracked altimetric LSHs is significantly worse than that of wet troposphere delays.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs70403808","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2015,4,7]],"date-time":"2015-04-07T03:47:46Z","timestamp":1428378466000},"page":"3808-3825","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":9,"title":["Monitoring Vertical Land Motions in Southwestern Taiwan with Retracked Topex\/Poseidon and Jason-2 Satellite Altimetry"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"7","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-3449-995X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Chung-Yen","family":"Kuo","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Geomatics, National Cheng Kung University, No. 1, University Road, Tainan 701, Taiwan"}]},{"given":"You-Jia","family":"Cheng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Geomatics, National Cheng Kung University, No. 1, University Road, Tainan 701, Taiwan"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-7087-270X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Wen-Hau","family":"Lan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Geomatics, National Cheng Kung University, No. 1, University Road, Tainan 701, Taiwan"}]},{"given":"Huan-Chin","family":"Kao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Geomatics, National Cheng Kung University, No. 1, University Road, Tainan 701, Taiwan"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2015,3,31]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"126","DOI":"10.1016\/j.tecto.2012.08.009","article-title":"Assessments of serious anthropogenic land subsidence in Yunlin County of central Taiwan from 1996 to 1999 by Persistent Scatterers InSAR","volume":"578","author":"Tung","year":"2012","journal-title":"Tectonophysics"},{"key":"ref_2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"957","DOI":"10.1016\/j.rse.2010.11.007","article-title":"Surface deformation from persistent scatterers SAR interferometry and fusion with leveling data: A case study over the Choushui River Alluvial Fan, Taiwan","volume":"115","author":"Hung","year":"2011","journal-title":"Remote Sens. 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