Bulletin of Surveying and Mapping ›› 2026, Vol. 0 ›› Issue (5): 128-135.doi: 10.13474/j.cnki.11-2246.2026.0521

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InSAR monitoring of short-term rapid slip in open-pit mine: a case study of tailings reservoir No.2 and 4,Dexing copper mine

LU Li1, XU Xiaobo2, QIN Yousen2   

  1. 1. China Railway Liuyuan Group Co., Ltd., Tianjin 300308, China;
    2. School of Geography Science and Geomatics Engineering, Suzhou University of Science and Technology, Suzhou 215009, China
  • Received:2025-09-26 Published:2026-06-09

Abstract: [Purposes]Tailings reservoir slides and their secondary hazards have become one of the major geological hazards in open-pit mines.Large-scale,short-critical and long-time dynamic monitoring of tailings reservoir landslide hazards is the basis for smart mine construction management and safe exploitation of mineral resources,and is also a powerful guarantee for preventing and warning the occurrence of landslide geological hazards in open-pit mining.[Methods]In this paper,we combine short-critical D-InSAR and long-time sequence PS-InSAR.Based on low-medium resolution Sentinel-1 satellite SAR wide mode images from November 2020 to March 2021,and taking tailings reservoirs No.2 and 4 of Dexing copper mine as the study area,it is used to monitor and analyse the short-time displacement characteristics,long-time displacement trends and influencing factors of the tailings reservoir in terms of slip profiles,PS single point positioning and time-series cumulative slip.Based on the coherence coefficient of SAR image interference,the large-scale slip deformation of tailings reservoir slope is analyzed.[Findings]The monitoring results show that the the tailings reservoir slip is mainly related to the dam elevation gradient and precipitation.Tailings reservoir No.2 slip occurs in the tailings sand reservoir,with a maximum slip rate is -439 mm/a.Tailings reservoir No.4 slip is mainly distributed in the upper half of the dam body,and the slip rate gradually increases from the top of dam to the central drainage channel,with a maximum rate of -619 mm/a.The time series results show that the slip initially starts near the central drainage channel of the dam body,and the maximum cumulative slip is -220 mm.The coherence coefficient method can effectively monitor large-scale slip of tailings reservoir slope.[Conclusions]The results show that the combined InSAR monitoring technique and coherence coefficient method can provide technical support for the large-area,short-period and long time series slip monitoring of the open-pit tailings reservoir.

Key words: tailings reservoir, slip, PS-InSAR, D-InSAR, coherence coefficient, Dexing copper mine

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