Articles | Volume 17, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-17-627-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-17-627-2017
Research article
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09 May 2017
Research article |  | 09 May 2017

Coseismic displacements of the 14 November 2016 Mw 7.8 Kaikoura, New Zealand, earthquake using the Planet optical cubesat constellation

Andreas Kääb, Bas Altena, and Joseph Mascaro

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ESA/EC Copernicus Sentinels Scientific Data Hub Copernicus https://scihub.copernicus.eu/

US Geological Survey Earthexplorer Earthexplorer http://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/

Correlation Image Analysis software (CIAS) A. Kääb http://www.mn.uio.no/icemass

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Short summary
We evaluate for the first time a new class of optical satellite images for measuring Earth surface displacements due to earthquakes – images from cubesats. The PlanetScope cubesats used in this study are 10 cm × 10 cm × 30 cm small and standardized satellites. Around 120 of these cubesats orbit around Earth and are about to provide daily 2–4 m resolution images of the entire land surface of the Earth.
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