Pub Date : 2022-11-01DOI: 10.1061/(asce)su.1943-5428.0000399
Guoquan Wang, Ashley Greuter, Christina M. Petersen, M. Turco
Harris-Galveston Subsidence District (HGSD), in collaboration with several other agencies, has been operating a dense Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) network for subsidence and faulting monitoring within the Greater Houston region since the early 1990s. The GNSS network is designated HoustonNet, comprising approximately 250 permanent GNSS stations as of 2021. This paper documents the methods used to produce position time series, transform coordinates from the global to regional reference frames, identify outliers and steps, analyze seasonal movements, and estimate site velocities and uncertainties. The GNSS positioning methods presented in this paper achieve 2–4-mm RMS accuracy for daily positions in the north–south and east–west directions and 5–8-mm accuracy in the vertical direction within the Greater Houston region. Five-year or longer continuous observations are able to achieve submillimeter-per-year uncertainties (95% confidence interval) for both horizontal and vertical site velocities. Two decades of GNSS observations indicate that Katy in Fort Bend County, Jersey Village in northwestern Harris County, and The Woodlands in southern Montgomery County have been the areas most affected by subsidence (1–2 cm=year) since the 2000s; the overall subsidence rate and the size of subsiding area (>5 mm=year) have been decreasing as a result of the groundwater regulations enforced by HGSD and other local agencies. HoustonNet data and products are released to the public through HGSD. The primary products are the daily East-North-Up (ENU) position time series and site velocities with respect to the International GNSS Service (IGS) Reference Frame 2014 (IGS14), the stable Gulf of Mexico Reference Frame (GOM20), and the stable Houston Reference Frame (Houston20). The ENU position time series with respect to Houston20 are recommended for delineating subsidence and faulting within the Greater Houston region. The ENU time series with respect to GOM20 are recommended for studying subsidence and faulting within the Gulf coastal plain and sea-level changes along the Gulf Coast. The entire HoustonNet data set is reprocessed every a few years with updated positioning software, IGS and regional reference frames, and data analysis tools. We recommend that users use the most recent release of HoustonNet data products and avoid mixing old and new positions. DOI: 10.1061/ (ASCE)SU.1943-5428.0000399. This work is made available under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Author keywords: Faulting; Global navigation satellite system (GNSS); Houston; Reference frame; Seasonal motion; Subsidence.
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Pub Date : 2022-08-01DOI: 10.1061/(asce)su.1943-5428.0000400
Yaming Xu, Pai Pan, C. Xing
{"title":"Dam Settlement Prediction Based on Random Error Extraction and Multi-Input LSTM Network","authors":"Yaming Xu, Pai Pan, C. Xing","doi":"10.1061/(asce)su.1943-5428.0000400","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1061/(asce)su.1943-5428.0000400","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54366,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Surveying Engineering","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45373420","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-02-01DOI: 10.1061/(asce)su.1943-5428.0000388
D. Bolkas, Jeffrey Chiampi, J. Fioti, Donovan Gaffney
{"title":"First Assessment Results of Surveying Engineering Labs in Immersive and Interactive Virtual Reality","authors":"D. Bolkas, Jeffrey Chiampi, J. Fioti, Donovan Gaffney","doi":"10.1061/(asce)su.1943-5428.0000388","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1061/(asce)su.1943-5428.0000388","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54366,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Surveying Engineering","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2022-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49133049","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-02-01DOI: 10.1061/(asce)su.1943-5428.0000378
Jie Han, Songlin Zhang, Jingchang Li
{"title":"Erratum for “New First-Order Approximate Precision Estimation Method for Parameters in an Errors-in-Variables Model” by Jie Han, Songlin Zhang, and Jingchang Li","authors":"Jie Han, Songlin Zhang, Jingchang Li","doi":"10.1061/(asce)su.1943-5428.0000378","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1061/(asce)su.1943-5428.0000378","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54366,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Surveying Engineering","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2022-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47564799","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-02-01DOI: 10.1061/(asce)su.1943-5428.0000382
Amir Allahvirdi-Zadeh, Kan Wang, A. el-Mowafy
AbstractPrecise orbit determination (POD) is the procedure for determining the orbit of a satellite with high accuracy. Compared with global navigation satellite systems (GNSS), the low Earth orbit...
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Pub Date : 2022-02-01DOI: 10.1061/(asce)su.1943-5428.0000381
A. Vonderohe, M. L. Dennis
{"title":"Minimizing Root-Mean-Square Linear Distortion in Common Conformal Map Projections","authors":"A. Vonderohe, M. L. Dennis","doi":"10.1061/(asce)su.1943-5428.0000381","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1061/(asce)su.1943-5428.0000381","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54366,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Surveying Engineering","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2022-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45658098","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.1061/(asce)su.1943-5428.0000395
M. Ulukavak, M. Yalçınkaya, E. T. Kayıkçı, S. Öztürk, Raif Kandemir, H. Karslı
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