Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR)

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Geodesists are, for the most part, a patient and hardworking lot. A day spent hiking to a distant peak, hours spent waiting for clouds to clear a line-of-sight between observation points, weeks spent moving methodically along a level line — such is the normal pulse of the geodetic profession. The fruits of such labors are all the more precious because they are so scarce. A good day spent with an electronic distance meter (EDM) or level typically produces fewer than a dozen data points. A year of tiltmeter output sampled at ten-minute intervals constitutes less than half a megabyte of data. All of the leveling data ever collected at Yellowstone Caldera fit comfortably on a single PC diskette! These quantities are trivial by modern datastorage standards, in spite of the considerable efforts expended to produce them.

Publication type Book chapter
Publication Subtype Book Chapter
Title Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR)
DOI 10.1007/978-3-540-49302-0_5
Year Published 2006
Language English
Publisher Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publisher location Berlin
Contributing office(s) Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center
Description 42 p.
Larger Work Type Book
Larger Work Title Volcano deformation— New geodetic monitoring techniques
First page 153
Last page 194
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