The Arizona Department of Water Resources Geophysics/Surveying Unit has been collecting and processing Interferometric Synthetic Aperature Radar (InSAR) data since 2005 to monitor land subsidence across the State of Arizona. Statewide land subsidence features were identified using the ERS-1, ERS-2, Radarsat-2, EnviSat, ALOS-1, and Radarsat-2 Satellites and are updated to 2014. Updated May 29, 2014.
Purpose
This datasets is made available to interested persons through the University of Arizona's instance of Open Geoportal. It has been provided to assist educators, students, researchers, and policy makers in mapping and/or analysis applications.
Bounding Box
West
-113.84411
East
-109.028341
North
34.92906
South
31.635822
ISO Topic Category
elevation
environment
geoscientificInformation
Theme Keyword
Theme Keyword Thesaurus
Place Keyword
Place Keyword Thesaurus
Place Keyword
Hidalgo County
Cochise County
Pinal County
Pima County
Yavapai County
Graham County
Maricopa County
Navajo County
State of Arizona
La Paz County
Place Keyword Thesaurus
GNIS
Language
eng
Spatial Reference Information
Reference System Identifier
Code
WGS 84 (EPSG:4326)
Code Space
EPSG
Version
7.9
Data Quality Information
Lineage
Process Step
Description
Dataset renamed from LandSubsidence.shp to Arizona_GroundSubsidence_2014.shp by Ben Hickson with the University of Arizona Library. Metadata fields corresponding the Open Geoportal Working Group Best Practices Guide (http://opengeoportal.org/working-groups/metadata/) were also updated.
