Ground displacement measurement by terraSAR-X image correlation: The 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 539-543

  Yague Martinez, Nestor ^a   Eineder, Michael ^b,c   Cong, Xiao Ying ^c   Minet, Christian ^b  

^a Starlab Barcelona SL   (Spain)

^b GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Differential synthetic aperture radar (SAR) interferometry (DInSAR); earthquakes; image correlation; SAR; speckle tracking

Indexed keywords

ABSOLUTE DISPLACEMENT; ATMOSPHERIC PATH DELAY; CORRELATION TECHNIQUES; DIFFERENTIAL SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR INTERFEROMETRY (DINSAR); DISPLACEMENT MAPS; FLIGHT DIRECTION; GPS DATA; GROUND MOTIONS; IMAGE CORRELATIONS; INTERFEROMETRIC TECHNIQUES; LINE OF SIGHT; MEGATHRUST EARTHQUAKES; SAR; SOLID EARTH TIDES; SPECKLE TRACKING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (SAR) IMAGES; TERRASAR-X; WIDE AREA;

CORRELATION METHODS; EARTHQUAKES; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERFEROMETRY; SATELLITES;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 84863001504     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2012.2196020     Document Type: Article

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