About interactive map of land subsidence in Iran

Interactive map of land subsidence in Iran is developed in a collaboration between Leibniz University Hannover and the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences. It provides insights into land subsidence in Iran using InSAR analysis of Sentinel-1 satellite data, highlights regions affected by land subsidence and aids in monitoring and understanding subsidence trends. For details on the analysis, please refer to the original paper published open access in Science Advances. You can also download the data as GeoTiff for further analysis from the Zenodo repository.


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  • Mahmud Haghighi, Institute of Photogrammetry and GeoInformation, Leibniz University Hannover.
  • Mahdi Motagh, GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences.


Citation and Download

This map is provided to you under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. If you use data from this map, or the corresponding data from the Zenodo repository in publications such as journal papers, articles, presentations, posters, websites, and social media, please cite the following paper and dataset. Please also include appropriate credit to the original data provided by ESA.

  • MH Haghighi, M Motagh, 2024, Uncovering the impacts of depleting aquifers: A remote sensing analysis of land subsidence in Iran. Science Advances, 10, eadk3039 doi: 10.1126/sciadv.adk3039.
  • Haghighi and Motagh, 2024. Land Subsidence in Iran Estimated from a Nationwide InSAR Analysis of Sentinel-1 Observations 2014-2020. Zenodo. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.10815578.
  • The dataset contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2014-2020, processed by ESA.


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Acknowledgment

This service utilizes various packages and data sources, including:

  • The interactive map is created using Leaflet.
  • GeoServer is used as the Web Map Service.
  • The Vazirmatn font is used for Persian text.
  • leaflet-groupedlayercontrol is utilized for grouping layers.
  • GDAL and QGIS are used for post-processing InSAR results.
  • Administrative boundaries are retrieved from OpenStreetMapĀ®.
  • The map contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2014-2020, processed by ESA.