“…Although multi‐sensor InSAR deformation time series data have been used worldwide to track the aquifer‐related deformation, most have relied on a relatively short period of observations, which does not enable isolation the transition between the elastic and inelastic surface deformation (Bai et al., 2022; Chaussard et al., 2021; Hu et al., 2018; Mirzadeh et al., 2021; Peng et al., 2022; Song et al., 2022). Recent studies that combine InSAR time series of the historical and recent SAR missions have assumed constant deformation rates in all periods when merging the time series or have used quantile–quantile adjustment and segmented linear interpolation methods, which are not applicable in all cases and often result in large uncertainties in the estimations of recoverable and irrecoverable storage values (Aimaiti et al., 2018; Li et al., 2023; Motagh et al., 2017; Wang et al., 2021).…”