Satellite earth observations support CTBT monitoring: A case study of the nuclear test in North Korea of Oct. 9, 2006 and comparison with seismic results

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 167, Issue 4-5, 2010, Pages 601-618

  Schlittenhardt, J ^a   Canty, M ^b   Grunberg I ^a  

^a FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR GEOSCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES BGR   (Germany)

^b FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; NUCLEAR WEAPONS TESTING; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SATELLITE SENSOR; SEISMIC DATA;

NORTH KOREA;

EID: 77951205464     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: 14209136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00024-009-0036-x     Document Type: Article

References (28)

1. AMMON, C. J., and LAY, T. (2007), Nuclear test illuminates USArray data quality, Eos Trans. AGU 88, 37.
2. BONNER, J., HERRMANN, R. B., HARKRIDER, D., and PASYANOS, M. (2008), The surface wave magnitude for the 9 October 2006 North Korean nuclear explosion, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am. 98, 2498-2506.
3. CANTY, M. J., NIELSEN, A. A., and SCHLITTENHARDT, J. (2005), Sensitive change detection for remote monitoring of nuclear Treaties. Proc. 31st Int. Symp. on Remote Sensing of Environment, Global Monitoring for Sustainability and Security, St. Petersburg, Russia, 20-24 June 2005.
4. CANTY, M. J., and SCHLITTENHARDT, J. (2001), Satellite data used to locate site of 1998 Indian nuclear test, EosTrans.AGU 82(3), 25-29.
5. COPPIN, P., JONCKHEERE, I., NACKAERTS, K., and MUYS, B. (2004), Digital change detection methods in ecosystem monitoring: A review, Int. J. Remote Sens. 25(9), 1565-1596.
6. CONG, X., SCHLITTENHARDT, J., GUTJAHR, K., SOERGEL, U., CANTY, M., and NIELSEN, A. (2007), Using differential SAR interferometry for the measurement of surface displacement caused by underground nuclear explosions and comparison with optical change detection results. In Global Monitoring for Security and Stability (GMOSS)-Integrated Scientific and Technological Research Supporting Security Aspects of the European Union (eds. G. Zeug and M. Pesaresi), European Commission-Joint Research Centre, pp. 282-293.
7. FISK, M. D. (2002), Accurate locations of nuclear explosions at the Lop Nor test site using alignment of seismograms and IKONOS satellite imagery, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am. 92, 2911-2925.
8. GENERAL GEOLOGICAL MAP of KOREA (1945), 1:1000000, multicolor, Bibl.-Magazin BGR, Hannover.
9. GUPTA, V. (1995), Locating nuclear explosions at the Chinese test site near Lop Nor, Sci. Global Security 5, 205-244.
10. HOTELLING, H. (1936), Relations between two sets of variates. Biometrika 28, 321-377.
11. KENNETT, B. L. N. (1991), IASPEI 1991 seismological tables, Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
12. KIM, W. Y., and RICHARDS, P. G. (2007), North Korean nuclear test: seismic discrimination at low yields, Eos TransAGU 88, 158-161.
13. KOPER, K. D., HERRMANN, R. B., and BENZ, H. M. (2008), Overview of open seismic data from the North Korean event of 9 October 2006, Seismol. Res. Lett 79, 178-185.
14. KVAERNA, T., RINGDAL, F., BAADSHAUG, U. (2007), North Korea's nuclear test: The capability for seismic monitoring of the North Korean test site, Seismol. Res. Lett. 78, 487-497.
15. MARSHALL, P. D., SPRINGER, D. L., and RODEAN, H. C. (1979), Magnitude corrections for attenuation in the upper mantle. Geophys. J. R. Astr. Soc. 57, 609-638.
16. NIELSEN, A. A. (2007), The regularized iteratively reweighted MAD method for change detection in multi- and hyperspectral data. IEEE Trans. Image Process, 16(2), 463-478. http://www.imm.dtu.dk/pubdb/p.php?4695.
17. NIELSEN, A. A., CONRADSEN, K., and SIMPSON, J. J. (1998), Multivariate alteration detection (MAD) and MAF post-processing in multispectral, bitemporal image data: New approaches to change detection studies, Remote Sens. Environ. 64, 1-19. http://www.imm.dtu.dk/pubdb/p.php?1220.
18. NUTTLI, O. W. (1986), Yield estimates of Nevada test site explosions obtained from seismic Lg waves. J. Geophys. Res. 91, 2137-2151.
19. s discrimination: Contrasts between historic nuclear explosions and the North Korean test of 9 October 2006, Geophys. Res. Lett. 35, L14301, doi:10.1029/2008GL034211.
20. RADKE, R. J., ANDRA, S., AL-KOFAHI, O., and ROYSAM, B. (2005), Image change detection algorithms: A systematic survey, IEEE Trans. Image Process. 14(4), 294-307.
21. SCHLITTENHARDT, J. (1988), Seismic yield estimation using teleseismic P- and PKP-waves recorded at the GRF-(Gräfenberg) array, Geophys. J. 95, 163-179.
22. SCHLITTENHARDT, J., CONG, X., CANTY, M., GUTJAHR, K., and SOERGEL, U. (2008), Satellite Earth observations support CTBT monitoring. In Remote Sensing for International Stability and Security, Integrating GMOSS Achievements in GMES (eds. G. Zeug, T. Kemper, A. Steel and M. Pesaresi), JRC Ispra, 19-20 February 2008, pp. 83-84.
23. SINGH, A. (1989), Digital change detection techniques using remotely-sensed data, Internat. J. Remote Sens. 10(6), 989-1002.
24. SULSOFT (2003), AsterDTM 2.0 installation and user's guide, Technical report, SulSoft Ltd, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
25. TIBULEAC, I. M., von SEGGERN, D. H., ANDERSON, J. G., SMITH, K. W., ABURTO, A., and RENNIE, T. (2008), Location and magnitude estimation of the 9 October 2006 Korean nuclear explosion using the southern Great Basin digital seismic network as a largeaperture array, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am. 98, 756-767.
26. THURBER, C., QUIN, H., and RICHARDS, P. (1993), Accurate locations of nuclear explosions at Balapan, Kazakhstan, 1987 to 1989, Geophys. Res. Lett. 20, 399-402.
27. VINCENT, P., LARSEN, S., GALLOWAY, D., LACZNIAK, R.J., WALTER, W.R., FOXALL, W., and ZUCCA, J. J. (2003), New signatures of underground nuclear tests revealed by satellite radar Interferometry, Geophys. Res Lett. 30(22), 2141.
28. ZHAO, L.-F., XIE, X.-B., WANG, W.-M., and YAO, Z.-X. (2008), The regional seismic characteristics of the October 9, 2006 North Korean nuclear test, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am. 98, 2571-2589.