Measuring coseismic deformation on the northern segment of the Bam-Baravat escarpment associated with the 2003 Bam (Iran) earthquake, by correlation of very-high-resolution satellite imagery

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 173, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 459-464

  De Michele, M ^a   Raucoules, D ^a   Aochi, H ^a   Baghdadi, N ^a   Carnec, C ^a  

^a BRGM   (France)

Author keywords

Dynamics: Seismotectonics; Image processing; Satellite geodesy

Indexed keywords

BAM EARTHQUAKE 2003; CORRELATION; COSEISMIC PROCESS; DEFORMATION; ESCARPMENT; GEODESY; IMAGE PROCESSING; MEASUREMENT METHOD; OBLIQUE FAULT; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REVERSE FAULT; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEISMOTECTONICS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

ASIA; BAM; EURASIA; IRAN; KERMAN [IRAN]; MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 42349085959     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2008.03743.x     Document Type: Article

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