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Inversion of SAR data in active volcanic areas by optimization techniques
1Department of Electrical, Electronic and System Engineering, University of Catania, Italy
2Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Sez. di Catania, Italy
Abstract. The inversion problem concerns the identification of parameters of a volcanic source causing observable changes in ground deformation data recorded in volcanic areas. In particular, this paper deals with the inversion of ground deformation measured by using SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) interferometry and an inversion approach formulated in terms of an optimization problem is proposed. Based on this inversion scheme, it is shown that the problem of inverting ground deformation data in terms of a single source, of Mogi or Okada type, is numerically well conditioned. In the paper, two case studies of inverting actual SAR data recorded on Mt. Etna during eruptions occurring in 1998 and 2001 are investigated, showing the suitability of the proposed technique.
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Citation: Nunnari, G., Puglisi, G., and Guglielmino, F.: Inversion of SAR data in active volcanic areas by optimization techniques, Nonlin. Processes Geophys., 12, 863-870, doi:10.5194/npg-12-863-2005, 2005. Bibtex EndNote Reference Manager XML
