Western Remote Sensing and Visualization Center
SANTA CLARA VALLEY, CALIFORNIA
Between January and August 1997 seasonal, recoverable subsidence occurred due to seasonal ground-water-level declines. |
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Interferogram of Santa Clara Valley, California, shows patterns of subsidence and some uplift occurring over 7 months in 1997, from January 4 to August 2. A central subsidence zone, (red) the result of seasonal ground-water pumping, is fully recoverable. |
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from Galloway, et.al., Measuring Land Subsidence from Space, Fact Sheet-051-00
April 2000
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Galloway, D.L., Jones, D.R., Ingebritsen, S.E., Measuring Land Subsidence from Space, Fact Sheet-051-00 April 2000
