The Dead Sea region has seen a rapid increase in sinkhole formation, posing serious environmental and infrastructure risks. The Geological Survey of Israel monitors sinkhole-related land subsidence along the western shore using InSAR, but current detection relies on manual interpretation of interferometric phase data, which is time-consuming and error-prone.
In this talk, I present an AI-based Deep Learning framework for automated detection of sinkhole-related subsidence from InSAR data. The model learns interferometric phase deformation patterns, rather than visual features, and is trained using expert-labeled subsidence maps from years of operational monitoring. I demonstrate the model’s ability to generalize across spatial and temporal settings using multiple evaluation schemes and object-level performance metrics. Results show effective detection of subsidence areas, promising generalization to unseen regions, and the ability to reconstruct large-scale subsidence trends from patch-level predictions.
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