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Space Geodesy Lab
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A lab that captures movements of the Earth's crust from space.
AboutAbout the lab
Exploring the Earth's movements from space.
The Space Geodesy Lab uses space geodetic data such as GNSS to model plate motion and fields of crustal deformation associated with earthquakes, slow slip, and similar phenomena.
Based on observational data such as crustal deformation and seismic activity, the lab also works to improve long-term earthquake forecasting.
Key terms
- GNSS
- A system that uses radio signals from satellites to precisely measure positions on the ground and their movement.
- Slow slip
- A phenomenon in which plate boundaries and similar zones slip slowly over a period of days to years.
- Inversion
- A method of working backward from observational data to calculate its causes, such as fault slip.
ResearchResearch themes
The lab models crustal deformation fields using space geodetic data such as GNSS, and improves long-term earthquake forecasting based on observational data.
*Illustrative imageExploring the Earth's movements from space
The lab uses space geodetic data such as GNSS to model plate motion and crustal deformation fields associated with earthquakes and slow slip, and works to improve long-term earthquake forecasting based on observational data.
*Illustrative imageCrustal deformation, active faults, and slow slip
The lab studies the relationship between the distribution of crustal deformation from geodetic observation and active faults, transient deformation of the Noto Peninsula observed with multiple GNSS networks, and the detection of slow slip by machine learning that combines seismic and geodetic data.
*Illustrative imageMethods for inverting fault slip
The lab studies geodetic data analysis methods, such as developing an inversion method for slip distributions on multiple faults using regularization with inequality constraints and applying it to the 2016 Kumamoto earthquake.
MembersFaculty
- ProfessorTakuya Nishimura
- Associate ProfessorPeiliang Xu
- Program-Specific Assistant ProfessorROUET-LEDUC Philippe Gerard Bertrand
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “GNSS reference station, White Park Bay” Rorosyfingers / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Exploring the Earth's movements from space: “Staufen interferogram detailed by TerraSAR-X” DLR / CC BY 3.0 (cropped)
- Crustal deformation, active faults, and slow slip: “Noto Peninsula Earthquake ( UMBRA-07)” Umbra Lab, Inc. / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Methods for inverting fault slip: “Interferogram of the southern Rhine Rift Valley near Freiburg by TerraSAR-X satellite” DLR / CC BY 3.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (断層物理研究領域): “Subduction Zone Stratovolcano” Wade Greenberg-Brand/Paleontological Research Institution / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (内陸地震研究領域): “Gomura Fault Ikunouchi Site C” さか
おり / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped) - Related lab (地震情報研究領域): “Seismic Station ( )” daryl_mitchell from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (海域地震研究領域): “Ocean Bottom Seismometer - Hongo Campus, the University of Tokyo - DSC04878” Daderot / CC0 (cropped)
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