Physics
Scientific paper
Dec 2002
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2002agufm.g61b0997m&link_type=abstract
American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2002, abstract #G61B-0997
Physics
0933 Remote Sensing, 1206 Crustal Movements: Interplate (8155), 1243 Space Geodetic Surveys, 1744 Tectonophysics
Scientific paper
Interest has been increasing over the last few years in the use of satellite radar interferometry data (InSAR) for applications in seismology and tectonics. We report here on a new technique, PSInSAR, which relies on permanent scatterers and offers the possibility of measurements of ground displacements to a degree of accuracy, and over periods of time, previously unobtainable from conventional interferometry. This technique has been developed by TeleRilevamento Europa of the Politecnico di Milano in Italy. A permanent scatterer is any large, permanent angular object, such as building roofs, metallic structures, and even large boulders. Using these data, very accurate displacement histories can be obtained for the period 1991 to the present. Calibration with GPS data show good agreement, but the PSInSAR data are less noisy. The effect is akin to suddenly having a very dense GPS network retrospectively available for the last ten years in any moderately urbanised area in a region for which a satellite data archive exists (about 50 per cent of the globe). Data have been gathered for the area around Suruga Bay, Japan, which is expected to be the locus of a future great Tokai earthquake. Previous studies have used levelling or GPS data to model the locked part of the subduction plane in this area, using the Akaike Bayesian Information Criterion (ABIC) method. This method could be used with PSInSAR data, which would be likely to yield a better result on account of the greater density of data. Furthermore, there is now the potential to use the ABIC method in any subduction area, whether there exist GPS/levelling data or not, provided only that the area is sufficiently urbanised to yield adequate permanent scatterers as data points. This work results from a European Space Agency (ESA) 'Earth Observation Market Development' project entitled 'Developing markets for EO-derived land motion measurement products', involving, NPA (lead), the British Geological Survey (UK), Imperial College (UK), TeleRilevamento Europa (Italy), ImageONE (Japan), the Geographic Survey Institute (Japan), Oyo Corporation (Japan), Fugro (Netherlands) and SARCOM (ESA data distributing entity).
Alessandro F.
Julian Bruce
Mark Hans
Musson R. M.
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