Joseph Green Adnan Ansar Joseph Aletky Margaret Glasscoe Yehuda Ben-Zion J. Ramon Arrowsmith Stephen B. DeLong Andrea Donnellan 2017 Large earthquakes cause billions of dollars in damage and extensive loss of life and property. Geodetic and topographic imaging provide measurements of transient and long-term crustal deformation needed to monitor fault zones and understand earthquakes. Earthquake-induced strain and rupture characteristics are expressed in topographic features imprinted on the landscapes of fault zones. Small UAVs provide an efficient and flexible means to collect multi-angle imagery to reconstruct fine scale fault zone topography and provide surrogate data to determine requirements for and to simulate future platforms for air- and space-based multi-angle imaging. application/pdf 10.1109/AERO.2017.7943605 en Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Imaging of earthquake faults using small UAVs as a pathfinder for air and space observations text