Detection of aquifer system compaction and land subsidence using interferometric synthetic aperture radar, Antelope Valley, Mojave Desert, California

Water Resources Research

Volumn 34, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 2573-2585

  Galloway, D L ^a,d   Hudnut, K W ^a   Ingebritsen, S E ^b   Phillips, S P ^a,d   Peltzer, G ^c   Rogez, F ^c   Rosen, P A ^c  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUIFER; DETECTION METHOD; GROUNDWATER ABSTRACTION; SUBSIDENCE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ANTELOPE VALLEY; CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

AQUIFERS; COMPACTION; GEODETIC SATELLITES; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER FLOW; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; INTERFEROMETRY; LANDFORMS; RADAR; SUBSIDENCE;

AQUIFER-SYSTEM COMPACTION; COMPREHENSIVE COMPARISONS; COUPLED MODELING; GEOLOGIC INFORMATION; GROUNDWATER BASINS; INTERFEROMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; MEASUREMENTS OF; PARAMETER ESTIMATE;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 0031715456     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98WR01285     Document Type: Article

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