Temporal and Spatial Analysis of Deformation Monitoring of the Ming Great Wall in Shanxi Province through InSAR
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
Comments and Suggestions for AuthorsOverall this article can be accepted for the journal. Detail comment as follows:
1. Title: Accept
2. Abstract: Author summarized the overall of the article.
3. Introduction: Author explains the background of research conducted. The aim of research was mentioned in this section.
4. Study Area and Data Sources: In this section my suggestion is to replace this topic to Related Work. Is better if author can be discussed about the previous work that has been conducted by previous researchers.
4. Methodology, Study Area and Data Sources: The section can be discussed about 3.1 Methodology used for this research. Besides the sub-section that discussed about the 3.2 Study area and 3.3 Data sources.
All Figures should be place after author mention the Figure number. Example "Inner Great Wall, and Riverside Great Wall, as shown in Figure 1." The diagram should be place after Figure 1.
Authors are advised to change as the suggestion above.
Abbreviations, authors are required to maintain the abbreviation used. Example VV and etc.
5. Analysis of Results: The detail discussion related to results analysis was done in this section.
6. Conclusion: The conclusion of this article was discussed in this section. In this research, the Sentinel-1A ascending orbit images was utilized and authors employs the SBAS-InSAR technique to conduct a exploratory research on surface deformation monitoring along the Ming Great Wall landscape corridor. The study period from March 2017 to January 2022. By implementing GACOS atmospheric phase correction and Goldstein filtering in the SBAS-InSAR method.
The study findings indicate that, over the five-year period from 2017 to 2022, various sections of the Ming Great Wall in Shanxi Province exhibited considerable deformation caused by both natural and anthropogenic factors.
An analysis of the thematic classification map of deformation stability along the Great Wall corridor in Shanxi Province shows that 75.8% of the Ming Great Wall landscape corridor remains relatively stable, while 24.2% experiences more significant deformations.
The research also demonstrates that the SBAS-InSAR technique, based on coherent points, proves to be highly applicable in natural landscape regions. Moreover, it can be extended to macroscopic monitoring and dynamic assessment of other large-scale linear cultural heritage sites.
References: Is mixed and enough.
Comments on the Quality of English LanguageNo comment.
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Reviewer 2 Report
Comments and Suggestions for AuthorsDear Authors
After detailed readings in the manuscript, entitled: " Temporal and Spatial Analysis of Deformation Monitoring of the Ming Great Wall in Shanxi Province through InSAR ", I suggest ACCEPT the manuscript with minor corrections:
1 - At the end of the Abstract, it is necessary to address the importance and need for this study on a global scale.
2 - The introduction is very well reasoned, but I suggest adding the importance of this study to the world at the end of the introduction. This would arouse the interest of readers more.
3 - The methodology is well founded. The authors really did a good job. Congratulations.
4 - The conclusion is well founded, together with the good quality of the English used in the text, which is clear and understandable. Congratulations.
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Reviewer 3 Report
Comments and Suggestions for AuthorsThis is a really great paper using publicly available data to better understand how anthropogenic and natural (climactic/weather and geological) factors are impacting the Great Wall with respect to deformation. This should be accepted and published. Good luck with your minor edits.
Cheers
Some minor comments:
Page 5, line 108: put figure caption on previous page with Figure 3
Page 6, line 146: diseases is the wrong word here, please use another word
Page 14, line 261: don't separate these out as two paragraphs, make it one
In terms of future research, perhaps LiDAR (or terrestrial laser scanning) or ground-penetrating radar could be useful, check out a few papersthat might be of interest:
de Smet, T.S., M.E. Everett, R.R. Warden, T. Komas, J.N. Hagin, P. Gavett, J.A. Martini and L. Barker 2019. The fate of the historic fortifications at Alcatraz island based on terrestrial laser scans and ground-penetrating radar interpretations from the recreation yard, Near Surf. Geophys. 17, 151-168. https://doi.org/10.1002/nsg.12031
Everett, M.E., T. de Smet, R. Warden, H. Ruiz Guzman, P. Gavette and J. Hagin 2021. The fortress beneath: ground penetrating radar imaging of the Citadel at Alcatraz: 1. General interpretation, Heritage 4, 1328-1347. https://doi.org/10.3390/heritage4030072
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Reviewer 4 Report
Comments and Suggestions for AuthorsThe introduction is too short. It does not actually show the current state of this theme. It is necessary to supplement the introduction, it is necessary to indicate the results of similar studies, for example in Italy. For example see - https://doi.org/10.3390/rs11111326. It should also be described briefly about the research methods, in particular, indicate about PS InSAR. Accordingly, the list of used literature will significantly expand. The methodology of the study as a whole was chosen correctly, but it should also be supplemented with the results of PS InSAR. Since this is a wall, it should create ideal conditions for this method. Comparing these two approaches will yield more interesting results.
After such additions, the article will be of interest to readers.
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