| Title | Ground deformation produced by 2012 M7.8 Haida Gwaii earthquake in Canada mapped with RADARSAT-2 DInSAR |
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| Licence | Please note the adoption of the Open Government Licence - Canada
supersedes any previous licences. |
| Author | Samsonov, S V ;
Czarnogorska, M |
| Source | Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 7534, 2013, 10 pages, https://doi.org/10.4095/293325  Open Access |
| Year | 2013 |
| Publisher | Natural Resources Canada |
| Document | open file |
| Lang. | English |
| Media | on-line; digital |
| File format | readme
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| File format | pdf; rtf; kml; bmp |
| Province | British Columbia |
| NTS | 102O; 103B; 103C; 103F; 103G; 103J; 103K |
| Area | Haida Gwaii |
| Lat/Long WENS | -134.5000 -130.0000 54.0000 51.0000 |
| Subjects | geophysics; earthquakes; earthquake studies; deformation; remote sensing; satellite imagery; satellite geodesy; RADARSAT-2; DInSAR |
| Illustrations | location maps; tables |
| Program | Remote Sensing Science |
| Released | 2013 12 11 |
| Summary | (Plain Language Summary, not published)
Earthquakes are the most destructive natural hazard events capable of producing severe casualties and substantial damage to infrastructure. A
satellite-based monitoring technique called Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) can measure ground deformation produced by earthquakes, which then can be used for modelling of earthquake parameters. Understanding of earthquake parameters
is important for forecasting the location, time, and/or magnitude of the future earthquakes, therefore, mitigating associated risk of casualties and damages. Presented here are deformation maps that can be used for modelling of the earthquake that
occurred in Canada in 2012. This space-borne data was acquired by the Canadian RADARSAT-2 satellite upon our request with the goal of advancing the understanding and use of this technology for deformation mapping. |
| GEOSCAN ID | 293325 |
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