Measuring the north–south coseismic displacement component with high‐resolution multi‐aperture InSAR |
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| Authors: | John Peter Merryman Boncori Giuseppe Pezzo |
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| Affiliation: | Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Rome, Italy |
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| Abstract: | Earthquake source inversions based on space‐borne Synthetic Aperture Radar interferometry (InSAR) are used extensively. Typically, however, only the line‐of‐sight (LoS) surface displacement component is measured, which is mainly sensitive to the vertical and E–W deformations, although well‐established methods also exist to estimate the flight‐path component, which is highly sensitive to the N–S displacement. With high‐resolution sensors, these techniques are particularly appealing, because accuracies in the order of 3 cm can be achieved, while retaining spatial resolutions between 45 m and a few km, depending on the required level of filtering. We discuss the application to COSMO‐SkyMed SAR imagery of the Spectral Diversity or Multi Aperture Interferometry technique, presenting the first SAR flight‐path displacement field associated with the Mw 6.3, 2009 L'Aquila event (central Apennines). Finally, we observe and characterize a previously unknown misregistration pattern. |
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