A multiscale approach to estimating topographically correlated propagation delays in radar interferograms

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 11, Issue 9, 2010, Pages

  Lin, Yu Nung Nina ^a   Simons, Mark ^a   Hetland, Eric A ^b   Muse, Pablo ^c   Dicaprio, Christopher ^a,d  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE LA REPÚBLICA   (Uruguay)

^d EXXONMOBIL UPSTREAM RESEARCH COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

atmospheric delay; InSAR; Long Valley Caldera; multiscale analysis; Tocopilla earthquake

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKES; ESTIMATION; GEODETIC SATELLITES; IMAGING SYSTEMS; LANDFORMS; RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TOPOGRAPHY; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS; WATER VAPOR;

ATMOSPHERIC DELAY; INSAR; LONG VALLEY CALDERA; MULTISCALE ANALYSIS; TOCOPILLA EARTHQUAKE;

INTERFEROMETRY;

CORRECTION; CORRELATION; COSEISMIC PROCESS; DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; ESTIMATION METHOD; INTERFEROMETRY; MAGMA CHAMBER; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TOPOGRAPHY; TRANSFER FUNCTION; TROPOSPHERE;

CALIFORNIA; LONG VALLEY CALDERA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77956541475     PISSN: 15252027     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GC003228     Document Type: Article

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