Two-dimensional Co-Seismic Surface Displacements Field of the Chi-Chi Earthquake Inferred from SAR Image Matching 英文参考文献.docVIP

Sensors 2008, 8, 6484-6495; DOI:10.3390/s8106484 OPEN ACCESS sensors ISSN 1424-8220 /journal/sensors Article Two-dimensional Co-Seismic Surface Displacements Field of the Chi-Chi Earthquake Inferred from SAR Image Matching Jun Hu 1, Zhi-Wei Li 1, *, Xiao-Li Ding 2 and Jian-Jun Zhu 1 1 School of Info-Physics and Geomatics Engineering, Central South University, Changsha 410083, Hunan, P.R. China; E-mails:163.com; zjj@ 2 Department of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong, P.R. China; E-mail: lsxlding@.hk * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-mail: rszwli@ Received: 10 June 2008; in revised form: 14 August 2008 / Accepted: 20 October 2008 / Published: 21 October 2008 Abstract: The M 7.6 Chi-Chi earthquake in Taiwan occurred in 1999 over the Chelungpu w= fault and caused a great surface rupture and severe damage. Differential Synthetic Aperture Radar Interferometry (DInSAR) has been applied previously to study the co-seismic ground displacements. There have however been significant limitations in the studies. First, only one-dimensional displacements along the Line-of-Sight (LOS) direction have been measured. The large horizontal displacements along the Chelungpu fault are largely missing from the measurements as the fault is nearly perpendicular to the LOS direction. Second, due to severe signal decorrelation on the hangling wall of the fault, the displacements in that area are un-measurable by differential InSAR method. We estimate the co-seismic displacements in both the azimuth and range directions with the method of SAR amplitude image matching. GPS observations at the 10 GPS stations are used to correct for the orbital ramp in the amplitude matching and to create the two-dimensional (2D) co-seismic surface displacements field using the descending ERS-2 SAR image pair. The results show that the co-seism