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Zhong Lu
Southern Methodist University

Satellite radar provides an all-weather, day-and-night imaging capability for monitoring landscape changes. Through interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) technique, satellite radar imagery can be used to measure ground surface deformation and map land surface characteristics at an unprecedented precision and spatial resolution. This talk introduces the principle of radar and InSAR imaging, summarizes the revolution of radar/InSAR technology on monitoring natural and man-made hazards (volcano, landslide, earthquake, mining, forest fire, flood, etc.) and characterizing natural resources (soil moisture, forest height, glacier, etc), and highlights emerging radar/InSAR technologies in years to come