High-resolution subsidence maps and data for whole Afghanistan, and, in a higher resolution, for Kabul and Ghazni provinces (2015-2022)

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false4DOIDB.GFZ 10.5880/GFZ.1.2.2024.001 Najibullah, Kakar Kakar Najibullah 0000-0002-2611-7528 GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany Metzger, Sabrina Sabrina Metzger 0000-0002-0803-6599 GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences Potsdam, Germany Schöne, Tilo Tilo Schöne 0000-0003-4118-9578 GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences Potsdam, Germany Motagh, Mahdi Mahdi Motagh 0000-0001-7434-3696 GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences Potsdam, Germany Hamidullah, Waizy Waizy Hamidullah Faculty of Geology and Mines, Kabul Polytechnic University (KPU), Kabul, Afghanistan Nasrat, Nasir Ahmad Nasir Ahmad Nasrat 0000-0001-9468-0411 Faculty of Geology and Mines, Kabul Polytechnic University (KPU), Kabul, Afghanistan Lazecký, Milan Milan Lazecký 0000-0001-8179-5949 COMET, School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK Amelung, Falk Falk Amelung 0000-0003-1762-8665 Department of Marine Geosciences, Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science, University of Miami, USA Bookhagen, Bodo Bodo Bookhagen 0000-0003-1323-6453 University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany High-resolution subsidence maps and data for whole Afghanistan, and, in a higher resolution, for Kabul and Ghazni provinces (2015-2022) GFZ Data Services 2024 InSAR time series solar panel mapping groundwater extraction Afghanistan Afghan subsidence desiccation cracks Well surface water level Kabul EARTH SCIENCE > HUMAN DIMENSIONS > NATURAL HAZARDS > LAND SUBSIDENCE EARTH SCIENCE > TERRESTRIAL HYDROSPHERE Metzger, Sabrina Sabrina Metzger 0000-0002-0803-6599 GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences Potsdam, Germany Schöne, Tilo Tilo Schöne 0000-0003-4118-9578 GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences Potsdam, Germany Motagh, Mahdi Mahdi Motagh 0000-0001-7434-3696 GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences Potsdam, Germany Hamidullah, Waizy Waizy Hamidullah Faculty of Geology and Mines, Kabul Polytechnic University (KPU), Kabul, Afghanistan Nasrat, Nasir Ahmad Nasir Ahmad Nasrat 0000-0001-9468-0411 Faculty of Geology and Mines, Kabul Polytechnic University (KPU), Kabul, Afghanistan Lazecký, Milan Milan Lazecký 0000-0001-8179-5949 COMET, School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK Amelung, Falk Falk Amelung 0000-0003-1762-8665 Department of Marine Geosciences, Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science, University of Miami, USA Bookhagen, Bodo Bodo Bookhagen 0000-0003-1323-6453 University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany Najibullah, Kakar GFZ German Research Centre for Geosiences, Potsdam, Germany 2023-11-01 Dataset 10.1029/2023WR036626 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2007.03415.x 10.1109/TGRS.2015.2444431 https://www.khaama.com/one-kilometer-long-surface-fault-occurs-in-central-afghanistan-47483/ 10.1029/EO081i048p00583 10.1029/1998GL900033 10.5067/GPM/IMERG/3B-HH-E/06 10.1002/2013JB010588 10.5281/zenodo.5542916 10.3390/RS12152430 https://up42.com/ 10.3390/rs12030424 10.1109/TGRS.2011.2160644 10.1201/9781315140919 10.1029/2017JB015305 10.1016/j.cageo.2019.104331 10.1109/TGRS.2012.2227761 CC BY 4.0 We present high-resolution subsidence maps for whole Afghanistan, and, in a higher resolution, for Kabul and Ghazni provinces. These data are complemented by wells water level time-series and precipitation data of Kabul, and time-series of mapped solar panel arrays, mapped Kariz networks, mapped desiccation cracks of 2022, and the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) of Ghazni province.

The subsidence maps result from a small-baseline (SBAS) time-series analysis (Lazecky et al., 2020; Morishita et al., 2020; Yunjun et al., 2019) of ~7 years of freely available Sentinel-1 radar data. The monthly wells water level time-series 2013-2022 were digitized from the log data of the Afghan Ministry of Water and Energy. The NDVI data 2015-2022 were derived from Sentinel-2 optical imagery. The solar panel arrays were mapped on high-resolution online Google Earth Pro imagery data in 2016, 2019 and 2022. More details of data processing and methods can be found in (Kakar et al., 2023), currently under review at AGU Water Resources. The jupyter notebook documents the creation of key figures.
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