{"id":220916,"date":"2014-08-26T06:20:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-26T10:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"326990abd58b0f5ae4ce188072be9967"},"modified":"2014-08-26T06:20:00","modified_gmt":"2014-08-26T10:20:00","slug":"norway-relief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=220916","title":{"rendered":"Norway relief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2014\/08\/norway_relief\/14736672-1-eng-GB\/Norway_relief_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nThis interferogram of the northern coast of Norway combines two radar images acquired by Sentinel-1A on 11 August and 23 August 2014. Although Sentinel-1A is still being commissioned, this new result demonstrates how useful it will be to map the shape of the land and monitor ground movement. Synthetic aperture radar interferometry \u2013 or InSAR \u2013 is a technique where two or more satellite radar images acquired over the same area are combined to detect large-scale surface changes. Small changes on the ground cause changes in the radar signal phase and lead to rainbow-coloured fringes in the interferogram. In this case, the image mainly denotes differences in topography.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe Lyngen Alps are featured on the right where mountains up to 1800 m rise from the sea. Since the area is particularly prone to landslides, it is closely monitored. Large landslides could shift rock into the sea suddenly, which could potentially create tsunami-like waves. In 1810, such a wave destroyed a village, and history shows that this kind of natural disaster occurs a couple of times every 100 years in Norway. InSAR is already an important tool for nationwide rockslide hazard mapping by Norwegian authorities. The unprecedented coverage offered by Sentinel-1 will significantly increase the value of InSAR data for this purpose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2014\/08\/norway_relief\/14736672-1-eng-GB\/Norway_relief_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nThis interferogram of the northern coast of Norway combines two radar images acquired by Sentinel-1A on 11 August and 23 August 2014. Although Sentinel-1A is still being commissioned, this new result demonstrates how useful it will be to map the shape of the land and monitor ground movement. Synthetic aperture radar interferometry \u2013 or InSAR \u2013 is a technique where two or more satellite radar images acquired over the same area are combined to detect large-scale surface changes. Small changes on the ground cause changes in the radar signal phase and lead to rainbow-coloured fringes in the interferogram. In this case, the image mainly denotes differences in topography.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe Lyngen Alps are featured on the right where mountains up to 1800 m rise from the sea. Since the area is particularly prone to landslides, it is closely monitored. Large landslides could shift rock into the sea suddenly, which could potentially create tsunami-like waves. In 1810, such a wave destroyed a village, and history shows that this kind of natural disaster occurs a couple of times every 100 years in Norway. InSAR is already an important tool for nationwide rockslide hazard mapping by Norwegian authorities. The unprecedented coverage offered by Sentinel-1 will significantly increase the value of InSAR data for this purpose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=220916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=220916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=220916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=220916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}