Satellites monitoring open-pit mines (IMAGE)

GFZ Helmholtz-Zentrum für Geoforschung

Satellites monitoring open-pit mines

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Mean deformation rates over the Hambach open-pit mine in Northrhine-Westphalia, Germany, retrieved from different SAR satellites. Negative and positive values correspond to subsidence and uplift in the line-of-sight (LOS) direction from satellite to the ground.

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Wei Tang, Mahdi Motagh, Wei Zhan

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