Presents
Location: Stanford University
This will be the 430th meeting since 1954
Time slices from the time-variable slip inversion of InSAR and alinement array data. Blue dots are the locations of background seismicity. Slip shown is cumulative
Interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) provides valuable spatiotemporal observations of surface deformation in volcanic and tectonic areas. In this study we generate a long time series of InSAR-measured deformation over the San Francisco Bay Area by combining over 100 ERS1/2 and Envisat SAR acquisitions from 1992 through 2011. We apply an advanced multitemporal processing algorithm that uses multiple-master interferometry and generate about 700 interferograms. The systematic errors (such as DEM error and atmospheric delay) are estimated and reduced by using a variety of wavelet-based filters. The differential displacement measured in each unwrapped interferogram is inverted to generate time series of the surface displacement for identified stable pixels.
To solve for the time dependent model of aseismic slip on the Hayward fault, the upper-crustal fault plane is discretized into triangular patches. Then, we apply an iterated inversion approach, combining static slip inversion and Kalman filtering to model temporal behavior of the slip. Combination of the advanced InSAR analysis, time dependent modeling and data handling allows us to investigate spatiotemporal variation of the creep at Hayward fault that might explain the 2011 seismic swarm at Berkeley.
Manoochehr Shirzaei
Manoochehr Shirzaei earned his B.A. in Surveying engineering in 2001 from Amir-Kabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran. He received his M.S. in Geodesy in 2003 from Tehran University, and was graduated Summa cum laude with his Ph.D. from Potsdam University, Potsdam, Germany. The title of his thesis is "Crustal deformation source monitoring using advanced InSAR time series and time dependent inverse modeling" He has worked as a Geophysicist/geodesist in Iran and Germany, was a Postdoctoral Scholarj at the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) in Potsdam (where earned the Award for top junior scientist), and since March 2011 has been a Postdoctoral Scholar, Univ. of California, Berkeley. His past research has been on International plate boundary observatory Chile, Exupery: Managing volcanic unrest, GPS network design for geophysical applications, and Blind fault positioning using aeromagnetic data. His current research project is on time-dependent creep modeling on the Hayward Fault. He has been invited to give talks in Austria, Germany, France, Iran, and at USGS in Menlo Park. In August 2011 he presented at the USGS Earthquake Science Center Seminar on "Spatiotemporal crustal deformation field monitoring and modeling using advanced InSAR time series and time-dependent modeling" and on January 30, 2012, he presented at the USGS - National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program on "Transient Slip on the Hayward Fault from InSAR, GPS and Seismicity Data."
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