Monitoring of active tectonic deformations in the Longitudinal Valley (Eastern Taiwan) using Persistent Scatterer InSAR method with ALOS PALSAR data

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 337-338, Issue , 2012, Pages 144-155

  Champenois, J ^a   Fruneau, B ^a   Pathier, E ^b   Deffontaines, B ^a   Lin, K C ^c   Hu, J C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ GUSTAVE EIFFEL   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Active tectonics; Longitudinal Valley Fault; Persistent Scatterers; PSI; SAR interferometry; Taiwan

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE TECTONICS; LONGITUDINAL VALLEY FAULT; PERSISTENT SCATTERERS; PSI; SAR INTERFEROMETRY; TAIWAN;

CREEP; GEODETIC SATELLITES; SCATTERING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TECTONICS; VELOCITY;

LANDFORMS;

ACTIVE FAULT; ALOS; DEFORMATION; RADAR INTERFEROMETRY; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TECTONICS;

COASTAL RANGE [TAIWAN]; LONGITUDINAL VALLEY; TAIWAN;

EID: 84862695754     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2012.05.025     Document Type: Article

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