Figure 1.10

An example of technology brought to bear in understanding ground deformation due to seismic activity. The image on the left shows interferometric fringes obtained from a before/after pair of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images of the 1992 earthquake in Landers, California. The image on the right is a synthetic interferogram from an elastic model by Massonnet et al. as shown at AGCI by Miriam Baltuck in a presentation about the use of remote sensing in natural hazards research. For more on this technique see Massonnet et al., Nature 364:138-141 (1993).

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