Monitoring deformation at the Geysers geothermal field, California using C-band and X-band interferometric synthetic aperture radar

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 2567-2572

  Vasco, D W ^a   Rutqvist, Jonny ^a   Ferretti, Alessandro ^b   Rucci, Alessio ^b   Bellotti, Fernando ^b   Dobson, Patrick ^a   Oldenburg, Curtis ^a   Garcia, Julio ^c   Walters, Mark ^c   Hartline, Craig ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Tele Rilevamento Europa   (Italy)

^c Calpine Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

deformation; geothermal; InSAR; X band

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED SCATTERERS; ENHANCED GEOTHERMAL SYSTEMS; EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY; GEOTHERMAL; GEYSERS GEOTHERMAL FIELDS; INSAR; INTERFEROMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; X-BAND;

GEODETIC SATELLITES; GEOTHERMAL FIELDS; GEYSERS; SCATTERING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

DEFORMATION;

ALGORITHM; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; GEOTHERMAL GRADIENT; GPS; RADAR INTERFEROMETRY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SUBSIDENCE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TERRA (SATELLITE);

CALIFORNIA; GEYSERS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84879993629     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/grl.50314     Document Type: Article

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