Dear Colleagues,

Interseismic crustal deformation produces a rather small amount of strain that is diffuse over large areas, and covers long temporal time-spans. Therefore, its accurate mapping is a crucial issue for seismic hazard assessment and provides a valuable data set to advance our understanding of the mechanics of active deformation.

In the past three decades, the increasing availability of geodetic measurements such as remote sensing techniques, interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR), and Global Positioning System (GPS) observations has demonstrated a great potential to detect slow tectonic signals such as interseismic strain accumulation. Moreover, a new generation of SAR satellite missions with unprecedented temporal sampling and spatial coverage are helping Earth Observation to increase its potential, complementing existing studies in seismology, GNSS, and field measurements. Precisely in that sense, for example, the Sentinel-1A/B sensors operated by the European Space Agency in the framework of the Copernicus program aiming to conduct environmental observation, with its open data policy, provided a significant tool for measuring small-scale crustal deformation over large areas, helping research to understand the dynamics of our planet. Recently, the use of satellite geodetic observations, InSAR, and GPS data, inverted with near-source strong-motion and high-sampling-rate GPS waveforms, contributed to the detection of coseismic slip behavior, the geometry of the causative fault, and cumulative slip distribution in many seismic events, improving our knowledge of source mechanism and contributing to the definition of seismotectonics.

We invite the global scientific community to contribute to this Special Issue of Remote Sensing with scientific contributions depicting new results retrieved by using remotely sensed data from different methodologies to infer interseismic strain accumulation and coseismic deformation associated with distinct kinematic behaviors in order to clearly understand the improvements in actual active tectonic knowledge.

Dr. Roberta Giuliani
Dr. Cristiano Tolomei
Guest Editors

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• Active Tectonics
• Geomorphology
• Geodesy and Surveying
• Remote Sensing
• Earthquakes
• Global Positioning System