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The geophysical, geotechnical, and unmanned aerial vehicle data are used for the development of a numerical model whose results feed into the custom-architecture neural network, which then provides information about on the complex relationships between the creep characteristics and soil displacements. By utilizing InSAR and GPS monitoring data, particle swarm algorithm identifies the most probable set of Burger\u2019s creep parameters, eventually providing a reliable estimation of the long-term behavior of soft soils. The validation of methodology is conducted for the Oostmolendijk embankment in the Netherlands, constructed on the soft clay and peat layers. The validation results show that the application of the proposed methodology, which relies on multisensor data, can overcome the high cost and long duration issues of laboratory tests for the determination of the creep parameters and can provide reliable estimates of the long-term behavior of geotechnical structures constructed on soft soils.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s22082888","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,4,9]],"date-time":"2022-04-09T05:13:08Z","timestamp":1649481188000},"page":"2888","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":10,"title":["Evaluation of Creep Behavior of Soft Soils by Utilizing Multisensor Data Combined with Machine Learning"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"22","author":[{"given":"Meho Sa\u0161a","family":"Kova\u010devi\u0107","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Civil Engineering, University of Zagreb, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-7183-6663","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Mario","family":"Ba\u010di\u0107","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Civil Engineering, University of Zagreb, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia"}]},{"given":"Lovorka","family":"Libri\u0107","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Civil Engineering, University of Zagreb, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia"}]},{"given":"Kenneth","family":"Gavin","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, TU Delft, 2628 CN Delft, The Netherlands"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,4,9]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","unstructured":"Leipzig, U., and Wien, F. 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