Publications  |  Presentations  |  Publications by other groups

Publications:

Li, D.; Jiang, L.; Huang, R. Hydrological and Kinematic Precursors of the 2017 Calving Event at the Petermann Glacier in Greenland Observed from Multi-Source Remote Sensing Data. Remote Sens. 2021, 13, 591. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13040591.
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Miles, B. W. J., Jordan, J. R., Stokes, C. R., Jamieson, S. S. R., Hilmar Gudmundsson, G., and Jenkins, A., "Recent acceleration of Denman Glacier (1972-2017), East Antarctica, driven by grounding line retreat and changes in ice tongue configuration", The Cryosphere. 2021, vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 663-676. doi:10.5194/tc-15-663-2021.
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Aati, S.; Avouac, J.-P. Optimization of Optical Image Geometric Modeling, Application to Topography Extraction and Topographic Change Measurements Using PlanetScope and SkySat Imagery. Remote Sens. 2020, 12, 3418.
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Chen, K. J., J. P. Avouac, S. Aati, C. Milliner, F. Zheng, and C. Shi (2020), Cascading and pulse-like ruptures during the 2019 Ridgecrest earthquakes in the Eastern California Shear Zone, Nature Communications, 11(1).
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Michel, S., J. P. Avouac, F. Ayoub, R. C. Ewing, N. Vriend, and E. Heggy (2018), "Comparing dune migration measured from remote sensing with sand flux prediction based on weather data and model, a test case in Qatar", Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 497, 12-21.
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Hollingsworth, J., L. L. Ye, and J. P. Avouac (2017), "Dynamically triggered slip on a splay fault in the M-w 7.8, 2016 Kaikoura (New Zealand) earthquake", Geophysical Research Letters, 44(8), 3517-3525.
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Avouac, J.-P., and S. Leprince (2015), "Geodetic Imaging Using Optical Systems", in Treatise on Geophysics, edited by G. Schubert, pp. 387-424, Elsevier, Oxford.
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Herman, F., O. Beyssac, M. Brughelli, S. N. Lane, S. Leprince, T. Adatte, J. Y. Y. Lin, J.-P. Avouac, and S. C. Cox (2015), "Erosion by an Alpine glacier", Science, 350(6257), 193-195.
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Avouac, J. P., F. Ayoub, S. J. Wei, J. P. Ampuero, L. S. Meng, S. Leprince, R. Jolivet, Z. Duputel, and D. Helmberger (2014), "The 2013, Mw 7.7 Balochistan earthquake, energetic strike-slip reactivation of a thrust fault", Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 391, 128-134.
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Hollingsworth, J., S. Leprince, F. Ayoub, and J. P. Avouac (2012), "Deformation during the 1975-1984 Krafla rifting crisis, NE Iceland, measured from historical optical imagery", Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth, 117.
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Vermeesch, P., and S. Leprince (2012), "A 45-year time series of dune mobility indicating constant windiness over the central Sahara", Geophysical Research Letters, 39.
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Hermas, E., S. Leprince, and I. Abou El-Magd (2012), "Retrieving sand dune movements using sub-pixel correlation of multi-temporal optical remote sensing imagery, northwest Sinai Peninsula, Egypt", Remote Sensing of Environment, 121, 51-60.
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N. T. Bridges, F. Ayoub, J-P. Avouac, S. Leprince, A. Lucas & S. Mattson, "Earth-like sand fluxes on Mars," Nature 485, 339-342 (17 May 2012) doi:10.1038/nature11022
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S. Wei, E. Fielding, S. Leprince, A. Sladen, J.-P. Avouac, D. Helmberger, E. Hauksson, R. Chu, M. Simons, K. Hudnut, T. Herring, and R. Briggs, "Superficial simplicity of the 2010 El Mayor–Cucapah earthquake of Baja California in Mexico," Nature Geoscience, Volume 4, Issue 9, Pages 615-618, DOI: 10.1038/ngeo1213, September 2011
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1.0MB
A. Copley, JP Avouac, J. Hollingsworth, and S. Leprince, "The 2001 M(w) 7.6 Bhuj earthquake, low fault friction, and the crustal support of plate driving forces in India," Journal of Geophysical Research - Solid Earth, Volume 116, Article Number: B08405, DOI: 10.1029/2010JB008137, August 2011
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1.2MB
F. Herman, B. Anderson, and S. Leprince, "Mountain glacier velocity variation during a retreat advance cycle quantified using sub pixel analysis of ASTER images," Journal of Glaciology, Volume 57, Issue 202, Pages 197-207, 2011
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6.2MB
A. O. Konca, S. Leprince, J.-P. Avouac, and D. V. Helmberger, "Rupture Process of the 1999 Mw 7.1 Duzce Earthquake from Joint Analysis of SPOT, GPS, InSAR, Strong-Motion, and Teleseismic Data: A Supershear Rupture with Variable Rupture Velocity," Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, v. 100, no. 1, p. 267-288; DOI: 10.1785/0120090072 (Electronic supplement) February 2010
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3.0MB
F. Ayoub, S. Leprince, and J.P. Avouac, "Co-registration and correlation of aerial photographs for ground deformation measurements," ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Volume 64, Issue 6, Pages 551-560, November 2009
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4.3MB
M. Necsoiu, S. Leprince, D. M. Hooper, C. L. Dinwiddie, R. N. McGinnis, and G. R. Walter, "Monitoring migration rates of an active subarctic dune field using optical imagery," Remote Sensing of Environment, Volume 113, Issue 11, Pages 2441-2447, November 2009
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539KB
I. Barisin, S. Leprince, B. Parsons, and T. Wright, "Surface displacements in the September 2005 Afar rifting event from satellite image matching: Asymmetric uplift and faulting," Geophys. Res. Lett., 36, L07301, doi:10.1029/2008GL036431, April 2009
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4.2 MB
D. Scherler, S. Leprince, and M. R. Strecker, "Glacier-surface velocities in alpine terrain from optical satellite imagery—Accuracy improvement and quality assessment," Remote Sensing of Environment, Volume 112, Issue 10, 15 October 2008, Pages 3806-3819
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1.5MB
S. Leprince, P. Muse, and J. P. Avouac. "In-flight CCD Distortion Calibration for Pushbroom Satellites Based on Subpixel Correlation". IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol.46, No.9, pp. 2675-2683, Sept. 2008.
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3MB
F. Ayoub, S. Leprince, R. Binet, K. Lewis, O. Aharonson and J. P. Avouac, "Influence of Camera Distortions on Satellite Image Registration and Change Detection Applications" in Proc. IGARSS,Boston, MA, USA, Jul. 2008.
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3MB
M. Taylor, S. Leprince, J.P. Avouac, and K. Sieh, "Detecting Co-seismic Displacements in Glaciated Regions: An Example from the Great November 2002 Denali Earthquake Using SPOT Horizontal Offsets," Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 270, Issues 3-4, pp. 209-220, 30 June 2008.
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S. Leprince. Monitoring Earth Surface Dynamics with Optical Imagery.
PhD thesis, California Institute of Technology, May 2008.
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1.3MB
S. Leprince, E. Berthier, F. Ayoub, C. Delacourt, and J. P. Avouac, "Monitoring Earth Surface Dynamics with Optical Imagery," EOS, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, vol. 89, January 1st 2008.
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5.6MB
S. Leprince, F. Ayoub, Y. Klinger and J.P. Avouac, "Co-Registration of Optically Sensed Images and Correlation (COSI-Corr): an Operational Methodology for Ground Deformation Measurements", IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS 2007), Barcelona July 2007.
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2.2MB
S. Leprince, S. Barbot, F. Ayoub and J. P. Avouac, "Automatic and Precise Ortho-rectification, Coregistration, and Subpixel Correlation of Satellite Images, Application to Ground Deformation Measurements", IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol.45, No.6, June 2007.
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1.7MB
J. P. Avouac, F. Ayoub, S. Leprince, O. Konca and D. Helmberger, "The 2005, Mw 7.6 Kashmir earthquake,
rupture kinematics from sub-pixel correlation of ASTER images and seismic waveforms analysis", Earth and
Planetary Science Letters, vol. 249, no. 3-4, 2006, pp. 514-528.
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Presentations:

Aati, S., "Measuring earth surface deformation, glacier dynamics and geomorphic changes from times series of optical satellite images with COSI-Corr," MDIS 2019
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Part I (7.2MB)     Part II (18.8MB)
S. Leprince, "Measuring Horizontal Ground Deformation using Optical Satellite Images," Handout guest lecture for Caltech Tectonics Geodesy Ge 167, May 2009
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23MB
S. Leprince. Monitoring Earth Surface Dynamics with Optical Imagery.
PhD defense seminar, California Institute of Technology, May 16, 2008
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Publications by other groups:

Mazzanti, P.; Caporossi, P.; Muzi, R. Sliding Time Master Digital Image Correlation Analyses of CubeSat Images for landslide Monitoring: The Rattlesnake Hills Landslide (USA). Remote Sens. 2020, 12, 592.
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C. Ding, M. Liao, L. Zhang, J. Dong and G. Feng, "Quantifying Dynamic Characteristics of Dune Migration in Northwestern China with Multitemporal Optical Satellite Observations," 2019 10th International Workshop on the Analysis of Multitemporal Remote Sensing Images (MultiTemp), Shanghai, China, 2019, pp. 1-4, doi: 10.1109/Multi-Temp.2019.8866966.
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Baird, T., C. S. Bristow, and P. Vermeesch (2019), "Measuring Sand Dune Migration Rates with COSI-Corr and Landsat: Opportunities and Challenges", Remote Sensing, 11(20).
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Bouali, E., T. Oommen, and R. Escobar-Wolf (2019), "Evidence of Instability in Previously-Mapped Landslides as Measured Using GPS, Optical, and SAR Data between 2007 and 2017: A Case Study in the Portuguese Bend Landslide Complex, California", Remote Sensing, 11(8), 20.
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Hermas, E., O. Alharbi, A. Alqurashi, A. J. Niang, K. Al-Ghamdi, M. Al-Mutiry, and A. Farghaly (2019), "Characterisation of Sand Accumulations in Wadi Fatmah and Wadi Ash Shumaysi, KSA, Using Multi-Source Remote Sensing Imagery", Remote Sensing, 11(23).
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Singh, K. K., H. S. Negi, and D. K. Singh (2019), "Assessment of glacier stored water in Karakoram Himalaya using satellite remote sensing and field investigation", Journal of Mountain Science, 16(4), 836-849.
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Socquet, A., J. Hollingsworth, E. Pathier, and M. Bouchon (2019), "Evidence of supershear during the 2018 magnitude 7.5 Palu earthquake from space geodesy", Nature Geoscience, 12(3), 192.
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Zinke, R., J. Hollingsworth, J. F. Dolan, and R. Van Dissen (2019), "Three-Dimensional Surface Deformation in the 2016 M-W 7.8 Kaikura, New Zealand, Earthquake From Optical Image Correlation: Implications for Strain Localization and Long-Term Evolution of the Pacific-Australian Plate Boundary", Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 20(3), 1609-1628.
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Bontemps, N., P. Lacroix, and M. P. Doin (2018), Inversion of deformation fields time-series from optical images, and application to the long term kinematics of slow-moving landslides in Peru, Remote Sensing of Environment, 210, 144-158.
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Milliner, C. W. D., J. F. Dolan, J. Hollingsworth, S. Leprince, and F. Ayoub (2016), "Comparison of coseismic near-field and off-fault surface deformation patterns of the 1992 M-w 7.3 Landers and 1999 M-w 7.1 Hector Mine earthquakes: Implications for controls on the distribution of surface strain", Geophysical Research Letters, 43(19), 10115-10124.
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Milliner, C. W. D., C. Sammis, A. A. Allam, J. F. Dolan, J. Hollingsworth, S. Leprince, and F. Ayoub (2016), "Resolving Fine-Scale Heterogeneity of Co-seismic Slip and the Relation to Fault Structure", Scientific Reports, 6.
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Lucieer, A., S. M. de Jong, and D. Turner (2014), "Mapping landslide displacements using Structure from Motion (SfM) and image correlation of multi-temporal UAV photography", Progress in Physical Geography, 38(1), 97-116.
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Zinke, R., J. Hollingsworth, and J. F. Dolan (2014), "Surface slip and off- fault deformation patterns in the 2013 MW 7.7 Balochistan, Pakistan earthquake: Implications for controls on the distribution of near- surface coseismic slip", Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 15(12), 5034-5050.
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Scheidt, S. P., and N. Lancaster (2013), "The application of COSI-Corr to determine dune system dynamics in the southern Namib Desert using ASTER data", Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 38(9), 1004-1019.
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Tiwari, R. K., R. P. Gupta, and M. K. Arora (2014), "Estimation of surface ice velocity of Chhota-Shigri glacier using sub-pixel ASTER image correlation", Current Science, 106(6), 853-859.
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Heid, T., and A. Kaab (2012), "Evaluation of existing image matching methods for deriving glacier surface displacements globally from optical satellite imagery", Remote Sensing of Environment, 118, 339-355.
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D. Scherler, B. Bookhagen, and M. R. Strecker, "Spatially variable response of Himalayan glaciers to climate change affected by debris cover," Nature Geoscience, doi:10.1038/ngeo1068, 2011/01/23 (Link to article; supplementary material)
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D.J. Quincey and N.F. Glasser, "Morphological and ice-dynamical changes on the Tasman Glacier, New Zealand, 1990-2007," Global and Planetary Change, Volume 68, Issue 3, Pages 185-197, August 2009 (Link to article)
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E. Berthier, R. Le Bris, L. Mabileau, L. Testut, and F. Rémy, "Ice wastage on the Kerguelen Islands (49°S, 69°E) between 1963 and 2006," Journal of Geophysical Research, 114, F03005, doi: 10.1029/2008JF001192, 2009 (Link to article)
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S. Barbot, Y. Hamiel, and Y. Fialko, "Space geodetic investigation of the coseismic and postseismic deformation due to the 2003 Mw7.2 Altai earthquake: Implications for the local lithospheric rheology," Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol. 113, B03403, doi:10.1029/2007JB005063, 2008 (Link to article)
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P. Vermeesch and N. Drake, "Remotely sensed dune celerity and sand flux measurements of the world's fastest barchans (Bodele, Chad)," Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L24404, doi:10.1029/2008GL035921, Dec. 2008 (Link to article)
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A. Tahayt, K.L. Feigl, T. Mourabit, A. Rigo, R. Reilinger, S. McClusky, A. Fadil, E. Berthier, L. Dorbath, M. Serroukh, F. Gomez, and D. Ben Sari, "The Al Hoceima (Morocco) earthquake of 24 February 2004, analysis and interpretation of data from ENVISAT ASAR and SPOT5 validated by ground-based observations" Remote Sensing Environ., 113(2), 306-316, doi: 10.1016/j.rse.2008.09.015, 2009 (Link to article)
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R. F. Garcia, P. Drossart, G. Piccioni, M. López-Valverde, and G. Occhipinti,"Gravity waves in the upper atmosphere of Venus revealed by CO 2 nonlocal thermodynamic equilibrium emissions," J. Geophys. Res., 114, E00B32, doi:10.1029/2008JE003073, March 2009 (Link to article)