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Although, annual spirit leveling has been conducted routinely in some parts of Beijing and Tianjin, and InSAR technique has also been used to monitor ground subsidence in some local areas of the region, there is a lack of a complete survey of ground subsidence over the whole region. In this paper, we report a research on mapping ground subsidence in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region over a long time span from 1992 to 2014. Three SAR datasets from four satellites are used: ERS-1\/2 SAR images from 1992 to 2000, ENVISAT ASAR images from 2003 to 2010, and RADARSAT-2 images from 2012 to 2014. An improved multi-temporal InSAR method, namely \u201cMultiple-master Coherent Target Small-Baseline InSAR\u201d (MCTSB-InSAR), has been developed to process the datasets. A unique feature of MCTSB-InSAR is the adjustment process useful for wide area monitoring which provides an integrated solution for both calibration of InSAR-derived deformation and the harmonization of the deformation estimates from overlapping SAR frames. Three maps of the subsidence rate corresponding to the three periods over the wide Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region are generated, with respective accuracy of 8.7 mm\/year (1992\u20132000), 4.7 mm\/year (2003\u20132010), and 5.4 mm\/year (2012\u20132014) validated by more than 120 leveling measurements. The spatial-temporal characteristics of the development of ground subsidence in Beijing and Tianjin are analyzed. This research represents a first-ever effort on mapping ground subsidence over very large area and over long time span in China. The result is of significance to serve the decision-making on ground subsidence mitigation in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs8080675","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2016,8,22]],"date-time":"2016-08-22T10:40:33Z","timestamp":1471862433000},"page":"675","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":91,"title":["Ground Subsidence in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Region from 1992 to 2014 Revealed by Multiple SAR Stacks"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"8","author":[{"given":"Yonghong","family":"Zhang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Chinese Academy of Surveying and Mapping, Beijing 100830, China"}]},{"given":"Hong\u2019an","family":"Wu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Chinese Academy of Surveying and Mapping, Beijing 100830, China"}]},{"given":"Yonghui","family":"Kang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Chinese Academy of Surveying and Mapping, Beijing 100830, China"}]},{"given":"Chuanguang","family":"Zhu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Hunan Province Key Laboratory of Coal Resources Clean-utilization and Mine Environment, Hunan University of Science and Technology, Changsha 411201, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2016,8,20]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","first-page":"195","article-title":"Land subsidence survey and monitoring in the North China plain","volume":"12","author":"He","year":"2006","journal-title":"Geol. 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