Jakarta Land Subsidence and

Inundation Vulnerability
Based on SAR Data
Agustan, Hartanto Sanjaya
PTISDA-BPPT
Takeo ITO
Grad. School of Env. Studies, Nagoya University
Kuta, October 22nd 2013
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Introduction
Jakarta as capital city with more then 10 millions
population
Vulnerable to flood hazard with more frequent cycle in
last decades
The 2013 Jakarta flood event cause 41 casualties with
32 trillion rupiahs loses due to longer time inundation
in some regions
The inundated and vulnerable area due to the increasing
rainfall rate is identified in the same location from
previous events, mainly in the north-western part of
Jakarta
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Introduction
North-western part of Jakarta is inundated longer
One factor that increases the inundated area is land
subsidence (Murakami et al., 2012)
Land subsidence is generally related to:
geological subsidence i.e. sediment consolidation due
to its own weight and tectonic movements; or
related to human activities such as withdrawal of
ground water and geothermal fluid, oil and gas
extraction (Raucoules et al., 2007; Yuill et al., 2009)

Land Subsidence in Jakarta

The ability of satellite based radar data to detect
ground deformation, i.e. land subsidence !
interferometry (InSAR) technique

Data and Method

There are 7 interferograms with 184 1472 days

~ 4 years data analysis
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Preliminary Results PALSAR: Jakarta

Interferogram (topo phase not removed)
2007 Jan 31 2007 Aug 03
184 days

Preliminary Results PALSAR: Jakarta

Interferogram (topo phase not removed)
2007 Jan 31 2007 Sep 18
230 days

Preliminary Results PALSAR: Jakarta

Interferogram (topo phase not removed)
2007 Jan 31 2008 May 05
460 days

Preliminary Results PALSAR: Jakarta

Interferogram (topo phase not removed)
2007 Jan 31 2008 June 20
506 days

Preliminary Results PALSAR: Jakarta

Interferogram (topo phase not removed)
2007 Jan 31 2009 Aug 08
920 days

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Preliminary Results PALSAR: Jakarta

Interferogram (topo phase not removed)
2007 Jan 31 2010 Nov 11
1380 days

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Preliminary Results PALSAR: Jakarta

Interferogram (topo phase not removed)
2007 Jan 31 2011 Feb 11
1472 days

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Results

January, 31 2007 August 3rd 2007 ~ 184 days

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Results

January, 31 2007 September 18th 2007 ~ 230 days

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Results

January, 31 2007 May 5th 2008 ~ 460 days

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Results

January, 31 2007 June 20th 2008 ~ 506 days

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Results

January, 31 2007 August 8th 2009 ~ 920 days

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Results

January, 31 2007 November 11th 2010 ~ 1380 days

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Results

January, 31 2007 February 11th 2011 ~ 1472 days

~ 70 cm in 4 years

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Google Map information

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Preliminary Results PALSAR: Jakarta

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Google Map information

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Google Map information

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Results and Discussions

ALOS-PALSAR data can monitor land subsidence in
Jakarta
L-band SAR is proven to have a good coherence in long
range time observation ( 1472 days ~ more than 4 years)
Land subsidence in Jakarta is suspected related to ground
water extraction ! anthropogenic
But there is a clear another deformation signal !
boundary line of phase difference ! ground deformation
(tectogenic ???)

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The January 2013 Flood Event

The area indicated with red circle and green square is still inundated on February
2nd after the heavy rain on 17th and 18th January (after 14 days), After 17 days
the area with red circle has dried up, in contrast to area in the green square, which
is still inundated. Inundation map also shows the inundated area on January 24th,
6 days after the peak of the rainfall, and it confirms that the subsided area still
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inundated