Department of Civil Engineering, University of Alicante
Carretera de San Vicente del Raspeig s/n, 03690 San Vicente del Raspeig, Alicante, Spain
email: mainnahe@ua.es
She received her Geological Engineering degree from the National University of Colombia in 2015, her MSc in Water Technology and Management from the Autonomous University of San Luis Potosí (Mexico) in 2020, and her PhD in Materials, Structures and Ground Engineering from the University of Alicante (Spain) in 2024.
Her research focuses on land subsidence monitoring and analysis through satellite remote sensing techniques, particularly InSAR/DInSAR, combined with hydrogeological interpretation and geospatial analysis. Her work has addressed groundwater-related land subsidence in several regions including Spain, Mexico, and Türkiye, contributing to the understanding of deformation processes associated with groundwater extraction, aquifer-system compaction, tectonic controls, and their impacts on infrastructure and flood risk.
She has also contributed to the development of methodologies for the validation of InSAR measurements in subsidence areas (ValInSAR) and tools for aquifer-system characterization (2S-TOOL). Her scientific activity has been developed within several international projects, including the RESERVOIR Project (PRIMA Programme), Dragon 5, Dragon 6, and UPGRADE, and through collaborations with institutions in Spain, Italy, and China.
She is the author and co-author of more than 10 SCI-indexed journal papers and more than 30 scientific contributions presented at international conferences and technical meetings. As a Colombian researcher working in an international environment, she is particularly interested in fostering future collaborations on land subsidence research in South America and promoting the application of Earth Observation technologies for groundwater management and geohazard assessment.
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Navarro-Hernández, M.I., Valdes-Abellan, J., Tomás, R. et al. Analysing the Impact of Land Subsidence on the Flooding Risk: Evaluation Through InSAR and Modelling. Water Resour Manage 37, 4363–4383 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11269-023-03561-6
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Navarro-Hernández, M. I., Tomás, R., Valdes-Abellan, J., Bru, G., Ezquerro, P., Guardiola-Albert, C., Elçi, A., Batkan, E. A., Caylak, B., Ören, A. H., Meisina, C., Pedretti, L., & Rygus, M. (2023). Monitoring land subsidence induced by tectonic activity and groundwater extraction in the eastern Gediz River Basin (Türkiye) using Sentinel-1 observations. Engineering Geology, 107343. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enggeo.2023.107343
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Hu, L., Navarro-Hernández, M. i., Liu, X., Tomás, R., Tang, X., Bru, G., Ezquerro, P., & Zhang, Q. (2022). Analysis of regional large-gradient land subsidence in the Alto Guadalentín Basin (Spain) using open-access aerial LiDAR datasets. Remote Sensing of Environment, 280(March). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2022.113218
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Navarro-Hernández, M. I., Valdes-Abellan, J., Tomás, R., Lopez-Sanchez, J. M., Ezquerro, P., Bru, G., Boni, R., Meisina, C., & Herrera, G. (2022). ValInSAR: A systematic approach for the validation of Differential SAR Interferometry in land subsidence areas. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 15, 3650–3671. https://doi.org/10.1109/JSTARS.2022.3171517
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Navarro-Hernández, M.I.; Tomás, R.; Lopez-Sanchez, J.M.; Cárdenas-Tristán, A.; Mallorquí, J.J. Spatial Analysis of Land Subsidence in the San Luis Potosi Valley Induced by Aquifer Overexploitation Using the Coherent Pixels Technique (CPT) and Sentinel-1 InSAR Observation. Remote Sens. 2020, 12, 3822. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12223822“