Coseismic displacements of the 14 November 2016 <i>M</i><sub>w</sub> 7.8 Kaikoura, New Zealand, earthquake using the Planet optical cubesat constellation

Kääb, Andreas; Altena, Bas; Mascaro, Joseph

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-17-627-2017

Articles | Volume 17, issue 5

https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-17-627-2017

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https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-17-627-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 17, issue 5

Research article

|

09 May 2017

Research article |

| 09 May 2017

Coseismic displacements of the 14 November 2016 M_w 7.8 Kaikoura, New Zealand, earthquake using the Planet optical cubesat constellation

Andreas Kääb, Bas Altena, and Joseph Mascaro

Data sets

ESA/EC Copernicus Sentinels Scientific Data Hub Copernicus https://scihub.copernicus.eu/

US Geological Survey Earthexplorer Earthexplorer http://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/

Correlation Image Analysis software (CIAS) A. Kääb http://www.mn.uio.no/icemass

Short summary

We evaluate for the first time a new class of optical satellite images for measuring Earth surface displacements due to earthquakes – images from cubesats. The PlanetScope cubesats used in this study are 10 cm × 10 cm × 30 cm small and standardized satellites. Around 120 of these cubesats orbit around Earth and are about to provide daily 2–4 m resolution images of the entire land surface of the Earth.

Coseismic displacements of the 14 November 2016 Mw 7.8 Kaikoura, New Zealand, earthquake using the Planet optical cubesat constellation

Data sets

Coseismic displacements of the 14 November 2016 M_w 7.8 Kaikoura, New Zealand, earthquake using the Planet optical cubesat constellation