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Line-of-Sight Velocity Map along the San Andreas Fault System from GPS and Sentinel-1 InSAR: Contribution to the SCEC Community Geodetic Model

Xiaohua Xu, & David T. Sandwell

Published July 25, 2017, SCEC Contribution #7337, 2017 SCEC Annual Meeting Poster #103

We present a crustal deformation velocity map along the San Andreas Fault System by combining measurements from Sentinel-1 Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) and Global Positioning System (GPS) velocity models (CGM V1). We assembled 5 tracks of descending Sentinel-1 InSAR data spanning 2014.11-2017.02, and produced 545 interferograms, each of which covers roughly 250km x 420km area (~60 bursts). These interferograms are unwrapped using SNAPHU [Chen & Zebker, 2002], with the 2Npi unwrapping ambiguity corrected with a new sparse recovery method. We used coherence-based small baseline subset (SBAS) method [Tong & Schmidt, 2016] together with atmospheric correction by common-point stacking [Tymofyeyeva and Fialko, 2015] to construct deformation time series [Xu et. al., 2017]. Then we project the horizontal GPS model and vertical GPS data into satellite line-of-sight directions separately. We first remove the horizontal GPS model from InSAR measurements and perform elevation-dependent atmospheric phase correction. Then we compute the discrepancy between the remaining InSAR measurements and vertical GPS data. We interpolate this discrepancy and remove it from the residual InSAR measurements. Finally, we restore the horizontal GPS model. This will be an on-going project that we commit to update on a yearly bases. All the products, including deformation time series, atmospheric phase screens and velocity maps will be available on the SCEC CGM website.

Key Words
InSAR, San Andreas Fault System, Crustal Deformation

Citation
Xu, X., & Sandwell, D. T. (2017, 07). Line-of-Sight Velocity Map along the San Andreas Fault System from GPS and Sentinel-1 InSAR: Contribution to the SCEC Community Geodetic Model. Poster Presentation at 2017 SCEC Annual Meeting.


Related Projects & Working Groups
Tectonic Geodesy