Modeling of ALOS and COSMO-SkyMed satellite data at Mt Etna: Implications on relation between seismic activation of the Pernicana fault system and volcanic unrest

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 125, Issue , 2012, Pages 64-72

  Currenti, Gilda ^a   Solaro, Giuseppe ^b   Napoli, Rosalba ^a   Pepe, Antonio ^b   Bonaccorso, Alessandro ^a   Del Negro, Ciro ^a   Sansosti, Eugenio ^b  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE FOR ELECTROMAGNETIC SENSING OF THE ENVIRONMENT   (Italy)

Author keywords

Etna volcano; Ground deformation; Satellite interferometry; Source modeling

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL ACTIVATION; DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKES; HAZARDS; RADAR SYSTEMS; SATELLITES; SPACE-BASED RADAR; VOLCANOES;

DEFORMATION PATTERN; ETNA VOLCANOS; GROUND DEFORMATIONS; HIGH-RESOLUTION MODELS; PERNICANA FAULT SYSTEM; SATELLITE INTERFEROMETRY; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SOURCE MODELING;

FAULT SLIPS;

ALOS; COSMIC; DIP-SLIP FAULT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT DISPLACEMENT; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; INTERFEROMETRY; SATELLITE DATA; SEISMIC SURVEY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

CATANIA [SICILY]; ETNA; ITALY; SICILY;

EID: 84864507854     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2012.07.008     Document Type: Article

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