Title :
ALOS/PALSAR has changed the earhtquake science
Author :
Hashimoto, Manabu
Author_Institution :
Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University, Uji, Kyoto, Japan
Abstract :
The Japan´s Advanced Land Observation Satellite (ALOS) provided excellent images of earth´s surface during the operation from May 2006 to Apr 2011. The Phased Array-type L-band SAR (PALSAR) has shown its high capability to detect crustal deformations and gave insights into the generation mechanism of earthquakes, such as 2008 Wenchuan, and 2010 Haiti and 2010 Chile, and New Zealand events. Without PALSAR, we might have misunderstood the characteristics of these events.
Keywords :
Earthquakes; Geometry; Global Positioning System; Interferometry; L-band; Orbits; Spatial resolution; ALOS/PALSAR; coseismic deformation; earthquake; interseismic deformation; postseismic deformation;
Conference_Titel :
Synthetic Aperture Radar (APSAR), 2011 3rd International Asia-Pacific Conference on
Conference_Location :
Seoul, Korea (South)
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1351-4
