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Date: 4/21/2021

Session Time: 5:00 PM to 6:15 PM Pacific

Application of Remote Sensing and Space-based Earth Observations Data in Earthquake Research

Earthquakes are one of the most unexpected and most destructive natural disasters. Spatial and temporal patterns and features of the multi-physical parameters, such as subsurface stress field, fluid flows, crustal deformation and other surface processes before and after large earthquakes are essential clues about the evolution of the earthquake cycle. Detection and identification of these processes in multiple Spatio-temporal scales much depend on observational techniques.

Recently, Remote Sensing and Space-Based Earth Observations are used in earthquake monitoring and forecast research. These include the observations of ionosphere disturbances before and during large earthquakes, as well as gravity changes due to large earthquakes detected in GRACE satellite missions. Several satellite missions such as the CSES-01 and FORMOSAT-7/COSMIC-2 are launched to detect possible atmospheric/ionospheric anomalies associated with earthquakes and other natural hazards. The development of these powerful remote sensing tools and finely tuned detection algorithms provide an exciting opportunity to image, assess and quantify physical processes that occur before, during and after large earthquakes.

This session focuses on the latest advances in remote sensing technology in earthquake research. This session expands the discussions of geohazards' predictability by presenting the latest results from cross-disciplinary observations from both space and ground measurements associated with earthquakes. These presentations will include but are not limited to: observations, modeling and analyses, geochemical, seismic, electromagnetic, thermodynamic processes, crustal deformation and case studies related to stress changes in the lithosphere along with their statistical and physical validation. Using such an interdisciplinary approach, we hope to advance current earthquake research studies and gain a better understanding of the lithosphere-atmosphere-ionosphere coupling processes.

Joint SSC-SSA Session

Conveners

Xuhui Shen, National Institute of Natural Hazards, MEMC (shenxh@seis.ac.cn)
Dimitar Ouzounov, Center of Excellence in Earth Systems Modeling & Observations, Chapman University (dimitar.p.ouzounov@nasa.gov)
Zhima Zeren, National Institute of Natural Hazards, MEMC (zerenzhima@qq.com)
Ramesh P. Singh, Schmid College of Science, Chapman University (rsingh@chapman.edu)
Angelo D. Santis, Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (angelo.desantis@ingv.it)
Shun-Rong Zhang, Haystack Observatory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (shunrong@mit.edu)
Jing Cui, National Institute of Natural Hazards, MEMC (jingcui_86@yahoo.com)

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