| Earthquake Monitoring in Australia Using Satellite Radar Interferometry? (2008) | |||||||||||||||
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| Are there any earthquakes in Australia? Although most Australians are not as familiar with earthquakes as citizens in countries such as Japan, there are some quakes on the Australian continent every year, the most notable recent seismic events being in Burakin (30.49 ° south latitude and 117.05 ° east longitude), in the state of Western Australia (WA). The largest earthquake, with a magnitude of 5.1 (ML), occurred near Burakin on 28 September 2001, at 02h54m56.6s UTC, and was felt widely in southwest WA, including Perth, the capital of WA. Differential Synthetic Aperture Radar Interferometry (DInSAR) has been widely used in recent years for monitoring crustal deformation due to earthquakes, volcanoes, underground mining, oil extraction, and so on. Hence the follow-on question is, can satellite DInSAR be used in Australian regions such as Burakin to monitor earthquakes? Is temporal decorrelation a problem for our repeat-pass InSAR monitoring of earthquake-induced crustal deformation in the Burakin region? Researchers from both the University of New South Wales and Geoscience Australia | |||||||||||||||
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