A Quantitative Assessment of DInSAR Measurements of Interseismic Deformation: The Southern San Andreas Fault Case Study

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 169, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1463-1482

  Manzo, Mariarosaria ^a   Fialko, Yuri ^b   Casu, Francesco ^a   Pepe, Antonio ^a   Lanari, Riccardo ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Deformation time series; differential SAR interferometry; interseismic deformation; San Andreas Fault; Small BAseline Subset (SBAS)

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE; DEFORMATION; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; RADAR MEASUREMENT; RADAR SIGNAL PROCESSING; STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TIME SERIES; TRANSPIRATION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; VELOCITY;

DEFORMATION TIME-SERIES; DIFFERENTIAL SAR INTERFEROMETRY; INTERSEISMIC DEFORMATIONS; SAN ANDREAS FAULT; SMALL BASELINE SUBSETS;

INTERFEROMETRY;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ACTIVE FAULT; ASSESSMENT METHOD; DEFORMATION; ERS-1; ERS-2; GPS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADAR INTERFEROMETRY; SAN ANDREAS FAULT; SEISMOTECTONICS; STACKING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

CALIFORNIA; COACHELLA VALLEY; SAN ANDREAS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84866886365     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: 14209136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00024-011-0403-2     Document Type: Article

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