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Therefore, we chose Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) technology to study the surface deformation in urban areas. In this research, we discovered the land subsidence phenomenon using InSAR and Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) technology. Two different kinds of time-series InSAR (TS-InSAR) methods: Small BAseline Subset (SBAS) and the Permanent Scatterer InSAR (PSI) process were executed on a dataset with 31 Sentinel-1A Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images. We generated the surface deformation field of Shenzhen, China and Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR). The time series of the 3d variation of the reference station network located in the HKSAR was generated at the same time. We compare the characteristics and advantages of PSI, SBAS, and GNSS in the study area. We mainly focus on the variety along the coastline area. From the results generated by SBAS and PSI techniques, we discovered the occurrence of significant subsidence phenomenon in the land reclamation area, especially in the metro construction area and the buildings with a shallow foundation located in the land reclamation area.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s19143181","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,7,22]],"date-time":"2019-07-22T02:55:37Z","timestamp":1563764137000},"page":"3181","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":89,"title":["Monitoring the Land Subsidence Area in a Coastal Urban Area with InSAR and GNSS"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"19","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-8559-9643","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Bo","family":"Hu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Surveying Engineering, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-6353-1365","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Junyu","family":"Chen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Surveying Engineering, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5305-7017","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Xingfu","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Surveying Engineering, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2019,7,19]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"2375","DOI":"10.1109\/TGRS.2002.803792","article-title":"A new algorithm for surface deformation monitoring based on small baseline differential SAR interferograms","volume":"40","author":"Berardino","year":"2002","journal-title":"IEEE Trans. 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