Abstract:Landslides occur frequently in China,especially in the western regions,with largely concealment and harmfulness.Early identification of potential landslides is pretty essential for disaster prevention and mitigation.The traditional methods,such as manual inspection and geodetic survey,are difficult to carry out and time-consuming in mountainous areas.Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR),as a new remote sensing measurement method,can accurately and efficiently identify the hidden dangers of landslides in wide regions.In this study,based on 111 Sentinel-1 C-SAR images and GPS three-dimensional velocity field in the Liujiaxia-Lanzhou section of the Yellow River Basin,the permanent scatterer InSAR (PS-InSAR) technology was used and calibrated to get the line-of-sight (LOS) deformation field of the study area from October 2014 to December 2019.One potential landslide area,which was located in the Yongjing County,was detected.This potential landslide area has never been mentioned before,but its size and magnitude are much larger than those of Heifangtai landslide area.Compared with GPS and previous results,the accuracy of the InSAR results was verified.Based on the historical data of strong earthquakes and field survey,it is found that this potential landslide area may be related to the Lanzhou M7.0 earthquake in 1125 and the Jiuzhaigou MS7.0 earthquake in 2017.This study can provide data and technical support for disaster prevention and mitigation in the study area.