Project Abstract
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Sharing high resolution topography and topographic differencing data, tools, and knowledge between SCEC and Japanese scientists addresses the goals of the VISES program. The growing availability of pre and post earthquake high resolution topography means that we should strengthen our joint knowledge about the data handling and its analysis. In September 2013, 4 SCEC scientists traveled to Japan as part of this workshop activity at Earthquake Research Institute and University of Tokyo Center for Spatial Information Science (http://www.opentopography.org/index.php/resources/VISES_JPN13). We had three workshop goals: 1) Review the scientific opportunities and recent results coming from the analysis of high resolution topography (<1 m/pixel; past earthquake reconstruction, tectonic geomorphology, and especially lidar differencing, etc.). 2) Train students and other young scientists on the technologies associated with gathering, processing, and analyzing high resolution topography for earthquake applications. And 3) Plan future collaborative research. The workshop comprised 5 main days of activities (field trip, science presentations, meetings, and training). The talks covered a range of topics from the needs for high resolution topography to fault trace mapping, landscape reconstruction, tectonic geomorphology, landslide recognition, and topographic differencing methods and results for Japanese and the El Mayor Cucupah earthquakes. |
