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https://doi.org/10.5194/eo-1-145-2026
https://doi.org/10.5194/eo-1-145-2026
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30 Sep 2026
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Comment on: “Evaluating InSAR-derived rates of surface-elevation change along the central U.S. Gulf Coast” by Li et al. (2026)

Manoochehr Shirzaei, Leonard Ohenhen, Carmen Atkins, Oluwaseyi Dasho, Nitheshnirmal Sadhasivam, Nivedita P. Kamaraj, Florence Onyike, Olasunkanmi Olorunsaye, Esther O. Oyedele, and Susanna Werth

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Editorial statement
Interferometric SAR (InSAR) has been used extensively to measure vertical land motion (VLM) resulting from both natural and anthropogenic causes. Careful processing is required to produce VLM estimates with mm level precision and the processing choices have an impact on the accuracy of the resulting estimates. In this comment on a paper published in EO, the authors discuss some of those choices and their impact and, in particular, best practices for validating the accuracy of products and benchmarking. These are important issues for the whole community working on VLM using InSAR to consider and to adopt best practice.
Short summary
InSAR can map coastal sinking at fine scales. A recent paper claimed this technology is unreliable for slow subsidence, potentially undermining its policy use. We show this conclusion stems from methodological flaws: the original data were coarsened before analysis, validation used an unrepresentative Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) network, and the uncertainty threshold is self-contradictory. InSAR performs robustly and remains vital for protecting coastal communities.
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