Join us next Thursday (April 9) at 12-1PM MT for a talk by Grace Bato and Sara Mirzaee (Jet Propulsion Laboratory).
Advancing Continental-Scale Ground Motion Monitoring over North America:
OPERA Surface Displacement Products for Your Science and Decision-Making Applications
The growing availability of SAR data has accelerated advances in remote sensing and our understanding of Earth processes, yet deriving reliable displacement products remains technically challenging for non-specialists. The JPL-led OPERA project addresses this gap by delivering standardized, cloud-processed Surface Displacement (DISP) products across North America, representing the first CEOS-ARD compliant InSAR suite of its kind. With both Sentinel-1 and NISAR in orbit, OPERA provides a continuous record of ground motion to support geohazard monitoring and the development of higher-level product, including Vertical Land Motion (VLM).
In this talk, we will walk through the DISP algorithm, validation framework, and real-world applications of the OPERA DISP suite. We’ll show how OPERA’s DISP product and tools could simplify studies, ranging from local volcanic unrest and landslides, to large-scale tectonic motion, while removing the heavy computational burden for users. Ultimately, our goal is to show how these free datasets make decision-making easier for end-users by providing a reliable, ready-to-use foundation for both research and operational response.
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