Community Geodetic Model
The Community Geodetic Model (CGM) is
being developed by the SCEC community to
assist in the understanding of the
interseismic, coseismic, postseismic, and
hydrologic processes associated with the
earthquake cycle along the complex fault
network of the Southern San Andreas
system. This activity supports several of
the SCEC5 science questions including: How
are faults loaded across temporal and
spatial scales? What is the role of
off-fault inelastic deformation on strain
accumulation, dynamic rupture, and
radiated seismic energy?
The CGM is built on the complementary
strengths of temporally dense GPS data and
spatially dense InSAR data. Much of the
SCEC4 activity was focused on the assembly
of GPS and InSAR data sets for measuring
secular motions, comparing geodetically
inferred fault slip rates with geological
rates based on paleoseismic studies (e.g.
UCERF3),
and using geodetic observations to detect
and investigate transient deformation. The
quality and quantity of both GPS and InSAR
data is rapidly improving to enable a
breakthrough in the spatial and temporal
resolution of the CGM. In particular,
reprocessing of long GPS time series has
provided high accuracy vertical
measurements that reveal a wide range of
new hydrologic and tectonic signals. In
addition, two new C-band InSAR satellites
(Sentinel-1A and B) are providing highly
accurate systematic coverage of the entire
SCEC region every 12 days from two look
directions. Developing methods to
integrate and update these dense
spatiotemporal datasets will be a major
task in SCEC5.
The CGM will include the following
components:
- Time series and average velocities from
continuous GPS sites.
- Time series and average velocities from
campaign GPS sites.
-
Consensus horizontal velocity and strain
rate grids based on GPS.
- Line of
sight (LOS) velocities at 500 m spatial
resolution from archive of InSAR data
(1992-2011).
- Time series from Sentinel-1 InSAR with
500 m spatial resolution, and better than
seasonal temporal sampling.
- A consensus vertical time series
at better than seasonal resolution based
on GPS and InSAR.
The SCEC CSM is a community effort informally steered by researchers with a range of tectonic and geodetic expertise including David Sandwell (UCSD), Willian Barnhart (U. Iowa), Peter Bird (UCLA), Brendon Crowell (UW), Gareth Funning (UCR), Eric Lindsey (EOS, Singapore), Rowena Lohman (Cornell), Rob McCaffrey (PSU), Jessica Murray (USGS), Zheng-Kang Shen (UCLA), Tom Herring (MIT), Wayne Thatcher (USGS), Xiaopeng Tong (UW), and Yuehua Zeng (USGS). For questions about this web page, please contact dsandwell@ucsd.edu.
If you're interested in participating in the CGM, you can request to be added to our e-mail list.