The technique of interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) is increasingly employed for landslide detection over large areas, even though the limitations of initial InSAR analysis results have been well acknowledged. Steep terrain in mountainous areas may cause geometric distortions of SAR images, which could affect the accuracy of InSAR analysis results. In addition, due to the existence of massive ground deformation points in the initial InSAR analysis results, accurate landslide recognition from the initial results is challenging. To efficiently identify potential landslide areas from the ascending–descending SAR datasets, this paper presents a novel interpretation approach to analyze the initial time-series InSAR analysis results. Within the context of the proposed approach, SAR visibility analysis, conversion analysis of deformation rates obtained from the time-series InSAR analysis, and spatial analysis and statistics tools for cluster extraction are incorporated. The effectiveness of the proposed approach is illustrated through a case study of landslide identification in Danba, a county in Sichuan, China. The potential landslide regions in the study area are identified based on the interpretation of small baseline subset InSAR (SBAS-InSAR) results, obtained with ascending–descending Sentinel-1A datasets. Finally, on the basis of the field survey results, a total of 21 landslides are detected in the potential landslide regions identified, through which the results obtained from the proposed interpretation approach are tested.

A warming climate will intensify the water cycle, resulting in an exacerbation of water resources crises and flooding risks in the Lancang–Mekong River Basin (LMRB). The mitigation of these risks requires accurate streamflow and flood simulations. Process-based and data-driven hydrological models are the two major approaches for streamflow simulations, while a hybrid of these two methods promises advantageous prediction accuracy. In this study, we developed a hybrid physics-data (HPD) methodology for streamflow and flood prediction under the physics-guided neural network modeling framework. The HPD methodology leveraged simulation information from a process-based model (i.e., VIC-CaMa-Flood) along with the meteorological forcing information (precipitation, maximum temperature, minimum temperature, and wind speed) to simulate the daily streamflow series and flood events, using a long short-term memory (LSTM) neural network. This HPD methodology outperformed the pure process-based VIC-CaMa-Flood model or the pure observational data driven LSTM model by a large margin, suggesting the usefulness of introducing physical regularization in data-driven modeling, and the necessity of observation-informed bias correction for process-based models. We further developed a gradient boosting tree method to measure the information contribution from the process-based model simulation and the meteorological forcing data in our HPD methodology. The results show that the process-based model simulation contributes about 30% to the HPD outcome, outweighing the information contribution from each of the meteorological forcing variables (<20%). Our HPD methodology inherited the physical mechanisms of the process-based model, and the high predictability capability of the LSTM model, offering a novel way for making use of incomplete physical understanding, and insufficient data, to enhance streamflow and flood predictions.