Writing proposal: Monitoring land subsidence in the urban Ha Noi areas and districts of TuLiem, Thanh Tri, Gia Lam and Dong Anh with radar interferometry Hanoi, VN Department of Science and Technology,HN, VN 145,000 USD Jan 2011 – Dec 2012 Associated with  Institute of Geology – IST, VN and Communication Research Center – NCU, Taiwan

VSDI, together with its partners (i) Institute of Geology – Institute of Science and Technology, Vietnam and (ii) Communication Research Center – National Central University, Taiwan for the implementation of the subject “Monitoring land subsidence in the urban Ha Noi areas and districts of TuLiem, Thanh Tri, Gia Lam and Dong Anh with radar interferometry”. It is carried out to meet the demands for the application of radar interferometry in the research and prediction of both land subsidence intensity and scope for Vietnam’s urban areas, especially for Hanoi, with high reliability to alert and minimize negative impacts of land subsidence due to over-exploitation of groundwater and climate change on civil projects, economic activities, as well as to establish information system in the survey area. Specifically, the subject aims to: (i) Establishing procedures to monitor land subsidence using radar interferometry from satellite images for the urban Hanoi areas; (ii) Monitoring and mapping the current situation of land subsidence in the urban Hanoi areas and districts of TuLiem, Thanh Tri, Gia Lam and Dong Anh with radar interferometry in 2011 and 2012; (iii) and Popularizing the issue of land subsidence related information from the findings to residents, professional companies/businesses and other departments involved via WEB Server and conferences