Satellites Document Earth Movement During Italy Quake
earth observation, environmental monitoring, imagery, sensor web April 16th, 2009
The European Space Agency just released details about how the Envisat Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar (ASAR) instrument was able to document the movement of the earth over the L’Aquila area of central Italy during this month’s seismic events. The interferogram above shows the deformation pattern, with each fringe equivalent to surface displacement of 2.8 cm.
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