Special Issue "Remote Sensing in Seismology"

Guest Editor
Dr. Salvatore Stramondo
Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, National Earthquake Center, Remote Sensing Laboratory, Via di Vigna Murata 605, 00143 Rome, Italy
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Interests: remote sensing; synthetic aperture radar interferometry; multitemporal SAR interferometry; remote sensing for natural disaster mitigation and monitoring

Satellite Remote Sensing has demonstrated to be a reliable tool for natural disasters studies and to detect the surface effects in terms of deformation and damage.

In particular, Seismology represents one of the fieldworks where SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) and Very High Resolution (VHR) Optical Remote Sensing obtained the higher number of results.

Since early ’90 the capabilities of SAR Interferometry (InSAR) technique have been exploited to study the surface displacement due to moderate-to-strong earthquakes. Recently SAR and Optical image correlation tools have been developed to measure the surface displacements based on co-registration of satellite images.

Furthermore, multitemporal InSAR techniques have been applied to detect and measure slow surface movements within high seismic risk areas thus providing a possible monitoring tool for interseismic surface deformation.

Concerning the effects of strong earthquakes to manufactures, Optical data can also furnish valuable information on settlement conditions after an earthquake. The spatial resolution of satellite optical sensors is rapidly increasing in the last years, reaching less than 1m (Ikonos, Quickbird, Eros satellites), becoming an effective tool for detecting changes of individual buildings.

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• remote sensing
• seismology
• earthquakes
  
• SAR
• InSAR
  
• VHR

Title: Integration of the Remote Sensing Data for Seismotectinc Studies Along the Pipeline Routes
Authors: V.M. Besstrashnov ¹, V.S. Imaev ², A.I. Kozhurin ³ and A.L. Strom ^1,4
1 Geodynamc Research Center Ltd., Moscow, Russia
² Institure of the Earth Crust, Siberian Brunch of RAS, Irkutsk, Russia
² Geological Institute, RAS, Moscow, Russia
³ Institute of Geospheres Dynamics, RAS, Moscow, Russia
Abstract: Construction of oil and gas pipelines in the tectonically and seismically active regions requires special measures at their crossings with active faults that can be ruptured during strong earthquakes, as it occurred during the 2002 M 7.9 Denali earthquake, which surface rupture crossed the Trans-Alaska pipeline. The design of efficient and safe crossing needs precise location of an active fault, data on its kinematics and assessment of the single-event displacement value. Though such factors as shortage of time usually allocated for these studies and poor knowledge of seismotectonic conditions along the pipeline route complicates such research significantly, integration of multi-scale remote sensing data including high and extra-high resolution space images and 3D laser scanning (Lidar) seems to be the most efficient tool for such engineering survey.
Several examples of integration based on case studies in the remote, densely forested areas in Siberia and Far East of Russia are presented. Two approaches are described. The first one, based on the gradual zooming of imagery, can be utilized in the regions, which seismotectonic conditions are rather well-known, like the Baikal Rift Zone (BRZ). Here, first, space images are used to delineate active fault zones, which detail structure is studied afterward by the analysis of DTM based on the Lidar data. However, in the areas east from the BRZ, it is more efficient to start from much more detailed Lidar data. If any suspicious features are identified on the detail DTM, they should be traced outside of the narrow stripe mapped by the Lidar, on the space images. Otherwise not very well expressed fault scarps could be missed or mixed with other features of none-tectonic origin. These studies provided new data on the seismotectonics of the study region, that have not only practical, but also scientific importance. They can be interpreted as an indicator of hypothetical eastward propagation of modern rifting outside the generally accepted limits of the BRZ.

Title: The Ionsphere Plasma Response to Variations of the Ecological Conditions of Natural and Technogenic Character
Authors: V.I. Larkina and Yu.Ya. Ruzhin
Affiliation: IZMIRAN, Moscow region, Trotsk town, 142190, Russia; E-mail: larkina@izmiran.ru
Abstract: The complex analysis of satellite measurement data of low-frequency electromagnetic emission intensity in a frequency range (100 Hz-20 kHz), flow energy electrons, density and temperatures of the ионосферной plasmas has shown reaction ионосферной plasmas on processes of geomagnetic disturbances, preparations of active seismic and slow geodynamic processes. Change of ionosphere plasma parameters, especially, of low-frequency noise intensity, over regions of radioactive pollution is established. The scheme of global satellite monitoring for remote sounding of ecological situation (conditions) for the purpose of revealing of disturbances of natural and technogenic character is offered.