Current surface displacement along the Carmel Fault system in Israel from InSAR stacking and PSInSAR

Israel Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Nof, Ran N ^a,b   Baer, Gidon ^b   Eyal, Yehuda ^a   Novali, Fabrizio ^c  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^c Tele Rilevamento Europa   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREEP; FAULT; GEOMORPHOLOGY; GPS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PALEOSEISMICITY; RUPTURE; SEISMIC HAZARD; SEISMICITY; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; SLIP RATE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WATER LEVEL;

ASIA; DEAD SEA RIFT; EURASIA; HAIFA [ISRAEL]; ISRAEL; MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 66049151003     PISSN: 00212164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1560/IJES.57.2.71     Document Type: Article

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