Measuring co-seismic deformation of the Sichuan earthquake by satellite differential INSAR

Yonghong Zhang; Wenyu Gong; Jixian Zhang

doi:10.1117/12.816004

29 December 2008 Measuring co-seismic deformation of the Sichuan earthquake by satellite differential INSAR

Yonghong Zhang, Wenyu Gong, Jixian Zhang

Proceedings Volume 7285, International Conference on Earth Observation Data Processing and Analysis (ICEODPA); 72854F (2008) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.816004
Event: International Conference on Earth Observation Data Processing and Analysis, 2008, Wuhan, China

Abstract

The Sichuan Earthquake, occurred on May 12, 2008, is the strongest earthquake to hit China since the 1976 Tangshan earthquake. The earthquake had a magnitude of M 8.0, and caused surface deformation greater than 3 meters. This paper presents the research work of measuring the co-seismic deformations of the earthquake with satellite differential interferometric SAR technique. Four L-band SAR images were used to form the interferogram with 2 pre- scenes imaged on Feb 17, 2008 and 2 post- scenes on May 19, 2008. The Digital Elevation Models extracted from 1:50,000-scale national geo-spatial database were used to remove the topographic contribution and form a differential interferogram. The interferogram presents very high coherence in most areas, although the pre- and post- images were acquired with time interval of 92 days. This indicates that the L-band PALSAR sensor is very powerful for interferometry applications. The baseline error is regarded as the main phase error source in the differential interferogram. Due to the difficulties of doing field works immediately after the earthquake, only one deformation measurement recorded by a permanent GPS station is obtained for this research. An approximation method is proposed to eliminate the orbital phase error with one control point. The derived deformation map shows similar spatial pattern and deformation magnitude compared with deformation field generated by seismic inversion method.

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Yonghong Zhang, Wenyu Gong, and Jixian Zhang "Measuring co-seismic deformation of the Sichuan earthquake by satellite differential INSAR", Proc. SPIE 7285, International Conference on Earth Observation Data Processing and Analysis (ICEODPA), 72854F (29 December 2008); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.816004

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