An earthquake with the magnitude of 5.9 Mw occurred in Qeshm Island and Hormozgan province in November 27th 2005. 3D co-seismic deformation field caused by the earthquake are determined based on the ascending and descending interferograms and azimuth offsets. The peak to peak estimated displacement is about 10 cm in west, 69 cm in north and 22 cm in vertical directions. We apply strain analysis...

Antarctic Submillimeter Telescope and Remote Observatory ~AST/RO!, a 1.7 m diameter telescope for astronomy and aeronomy studies at wavelengths between 200 and 3000 mm, was installed at the South Pole during the 1994–95 Austral summer. The optical design is Gregorian, offset in both azimuth and elevation, with the exit pupil at the chopping tertiary mirror: this arrangement provides for consist...

Two image-to-image patch offset techniques for estimating feature motion between satellite synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images are discussed. Intensity tracking, based on patch intensity cross-correlation optimization, and coherence tracking, based on patch coherence optimization, are used to estimate the movement of glacier surfaces between two SAR images in both slant-range and azimuth dire...

Interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) is now routinely used to generate topographic data and to study geophysical phenomena, such as crustal deformation, ice motion and structure, and vegetation canopy depths [1]. In this study, we show that ionospheric disturbances can distort InSAR phase and correlation maps, and, further, that accurate image coregistration can compensate for ionos...

The pixel-offset method has been utilized as a powerful tool to measure large ground movements. However, L-band spaceborne synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data are often affected by the ionosphere, which produces serious noises in azimuth component of pixel offset field, called streaks. Here, we propose new mitigate streaks based on physical modeling. Azimuth cannot be removed simply combining k...

Irregularly and sparsely sampled seismic data that has been shot with a predominant azimuth for long offsets can be completely reconstructed. Our method uses reposting along receiver lines to exact crossline positions, followed by least squares reconstruction in the midpoint-offset domain. This reconstruction scheme has been applied to a 3D marine dataset from the North Sea. Various aspects and...

Technology advances, such as WAZ/FAZ acquisition, reverse time migration (RTM) and iterative salt imaging in model building, have greatly improved subsalt image quality. However subsalt imaging under complex salt overburden is still challenging. The fundamental issue lies with the imperfect illumination from limited acquisition. In the poor illumination zones, the migration artifacts and cohere...

5D interpolation followed by azimuthal prestack migration results in better conditioned gathers for Amplitude Versus Offset (AVO) and Amplitude Versus Azimuth (AVAz) analysis. The data should be prestack migrated prior to AVO or AVAz analysis, but this often proves problematic for land data due to the poor sampling of the data in offset and azimuth. This sparse sampling results in incomplete co...

Prestack depth migration of shot profiles by downward continuation is a practical imaging algorithm that is especially cost-effective for sparse-shot wide-azimuth geometries. The interpretation of offset as the displacement between the downward-propagating (shot) wavefield and upward-propagating (receiver) wavefield enables us to extract offset-domain common imagepoint (CIP) gathers during shot...