Houston-Galveston Bay Area,
Texas, From Space
A New Tool for Mapping Land Subsidence
By S.V. Stork and M. Sneed
Fact Sheet 110-02
In cooperation with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
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Contents
Consequences of Land Subsidence
InSAR-Detected Inland Subsidence, 1996
InSAR-Detected Coastal Subsidence, 1996–99
Integrated Monitoring in the 21st Century
Figures
2. Map showing extent of subsidence in the Houston-Galveston Bay area during 1906–95
5. Map showing areas of interferograms shown in figures 6–9
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