Surface displacement estimation along Himalayan frontal fault using differential SAR interferometry

Natural Hazards

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 1105-1123

  Bhattacharya, Atanu ^a   Sharma, Mukat L ^a   Arora, Manoj K ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ROORKEE   (India)

Author keywords

Aseismic slip; Differential SAR interferometry (DInSAR); Himalayan frontal fault (HFF); Minimum cost flow (MCF)

Indexed keywords

COLLISION ZONE; DEFORMATION; DISPLACEMENT; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; ESTIMATION METHOD; FAULT; PLATE CONVERGENCE; RADAR INTERFEROMETRY; SEISMICITY; SEISMOTECTONICS; SLIP; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

HIMALAYAS;

EID: 84867230576     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-012-0292-4     Document Type: Article

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