CRUSTAL STRAIN AND TOPOGRAPHY FROM SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR INTERFEROMETRY

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Coulomb Stress Accumulation Along the San Andreas Fault System
Fault Creep Along the Southern San Andreas from InSAR, Permanent Scatterers, and Stacking- In Press, JGR, December 2002
Deformation on nearby faults induced by the 1999 Hector Mine earthquake, Science, 297, 1858-1862, 2002 | (on-line text)
The 1999 (Mw 7.1) Hector Mine, California Earthquake: Near-Field Postseismic Deformation from ERS Interferometry- BSSA, v.92, no. 4, 1433-1442, May 2002
Lack of Precursory Slip to the Hector Mine Earthquake as constrained by INSAR -BSSA, v.92, no. 4, 1443-1449, May 2002
Hector Mine Earthquake: Vector Near-Field Displacement from ERS InSAR - BSSA, v.92, no. 4, 1341-1354, May 2002
Satellite interferometric observations of the displacement associated with seasonal groundwater in the Los Angeles Basin - JGR, v. 107, no. 4, 10 Apr 2002
The complete (3-D) surface displacement field in the epicentral area of the 1999 Mw7.1 Hector Mine earthquake, California, from space geodetic observations, Geophys. Res. Lett., 28, 3063-3066, 2001
Evidence for on-going inflation of the Socorro magma body, New Mexico, from Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar imaging, Geophys. Res. Lett., 28, 3549-3552, 2001
Topographic Recovery from Stacked ERS interferometry - JGR, v. 105, p. 28211-28222, 2000
Near-Real-Time Radar Interferometry of the Mw 7.1 Hector Mine Earthquake - GRL, v. 27, p. 3101-3104, 2000.
Phase Gradient Approach to Stacking Interferograms - JGR, v. 103, p. 30183-30204, 1998
Small-Scale Deformation Associated with the Landers Earthquake Mapped by SAR Interferometry- JGR, v. 103, p. 27001-27016, 1998

Interferogram of Hector Mine 7.1 M Earthquake. One fringe corresponds to 28 mm of ground displacement away fromt he radar. Synthetic Aperture Radar data are from the European Space Agency Satellite ERS-2 satellite. Data were acquired at Scripps Institution of Oceanography/IGPP on 20 October. Real-Time Orbits were provided by Delft University and the ground station was built by SeaSpace Co. and SIO.