InSAR Derived Deformation Patterns Related to the Aigion Earthquake (Greece)

Author

Nitti, D.O. ; Bovenga, F. ; Nutricato, R. ; Refice, A. ; Chiaradia, M.T.

Author_Institution

Dipt. Interateneo di Fis., Univ. of Bari, Bari

fYear

2006

fDate

July 31 2006-Aug. 4 2006

Firstpage

1564

Lastpage

1567

Abstract

The detectability of the deformation pattern produced by the June 15, 1995 Aigion earthquake with DInSAR techniques is ensured by its magnitude (M_w=6.3), shallow depth and dip-slip mechanism. In this paper, stacking procedures are applied to a series of ERS interferograms in order to filter out from the differential phase field the atmospheric signal, and an a posteriori test is used to check the statistical properties of the atmospheric signal both in time and space. Based on the DlnSAR-derived deformation pattern, a new fault model is proposed that takes into account the crustal layering of the western part of the Gulf of Corinth.

Keywords

earthquakes; faulting; geophysical signal processing; image processing; radar interferometry; synthetic aperture radar; topography (Earth); AD 1995 06 15; Aigion earthquake; DInSAR techniques; ERS interferograms; Greece; Gulf of Corinth; atmospheric signal; crustal layering; deformation pattern; differential phase field; dip-slip mechanism; fault model; stacking procedures; statistical properties; Atmospheric modeling; Cities and towns; Deformable models; Earthquakes; Filters; Master-slave; Stacking; Synthetic aperture radar; Synthetic aperture radar interferometry; Testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2006. IGARSS 2006. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Denver, CO

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9510-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2006.403

Filename

4241550