Rapid damage mapping for the 2015 Mw 7.8 Gorkha Earthquake Using synthetic aperture radar data from COSMO-SkyMed and ALOS-2 satellites

Seismological Research Letters

Volumn 86, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1549-1556

  Yun, Sang Ho ^a   Hudnut, Kenneth ^b   Owen, Susan ^a   Webb, Frank ^a   Simons, Mark ^c   Sacco, Patrizia ^d   Gurrola, Eric ^a   Manipon, Gerald ^a   Liang, Cunren ^a   Fielding, Eric ^a   Milillo, Pietro ^a,e   Hua, Hook ^a   Coletta, Alessandro ^d  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d ITALIAN SPACE AGENCY   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BASILICATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DAMAGE DETECTION; EARTHQUAKES; RADAR IMAGING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPACE RESEARCH; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ADVANCED LAND OBSERVING SATELLITES; DAMAGE ASSESSMENTS; INDEPENDENT DAMAGES; INTERFEROMETRIC SAR; ITALIAN SPACE AGENCY; JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY; NATIONAL GEOSPATIAL-INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES; SATELLITE APPLICATIONS;

SPACE-BASED RADAR;

ALOS; COSMO-SKYMED; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; GEOLOGICAL MAPPING; INTERFEROMETRY; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

NEPAL;

EID: 84947052785     PISSN: 08950695     EISSN: 19382057     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0220150152     Document Type: Article

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