New signatures of underground nuclear tests revealed by satellite radar interferometry

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 22, 2003, Pages

  Vincent, Paul ^a   Larsen, Shawn ^a   Galloway, Devin ^b   Laczniak, Randell J ^b   Walter, William R ^a   Foxall, William ^a   Zucca, John J ^a  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; GEOLOGY; HYDROLOGY; INTERFEROMETRY; SATELLITES; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; SUBSIDENCE; TESTING;

NUCLEAR TESTS; SURFACE DISPLACEMENT; HIGH RESOLUTION; INTERFEROGRAMS; INTERFEROMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; NEVADA TEST SITE; REMOTE SENSING TECHNIQUES; SATELLITE RADAR INTERFEROMETRY; SURFACE CRATERS;

GEOPHYSICS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

DISPLACEMENT; NUCLEAR WEAPONS TESTING; RADAR INTERFEROMETRY; SATELLITE DATA; SUBSIDENCE;

NEVADA; NEVADA TEST SITE; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0942278138     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003GL018179     Document Type: Article

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