Publications

2020

E. J. Fielding, Z. Liu, O. L. Stephenson, M. Zhong, C. Liang, A. Moore, S.-H. Yun, and M. Simons, “Surface deformation related to the 2019 Mw 7.1 and 6.4 Ridgecrest earthquakes in California from GPS, SAR interferometry, and SAR pixel offsets,” Seismological Research Letters, vol. 91, no. 4, pp. 2035-2046, Jul. 2020.

2019

T. Ulrich, S. Vater, E. H. Madden, J. Behrens, Y. van Dinther, I. van Zelst, E. J. Fielding, C. Liang, and A.-A. Gabriel, “Coupled, physics-based modeling reveals earthquake displacements are critical to the 2018 Palu, Sulawesi tsunami,” Pure and Applied Geophysics, vol. 176, pp. 4069-4109, Oct. 2019.
A. L. Handwerger, E. J. Fielding, M.-H. Huang, G. L. Bennett, C. Liang, and W. H. Schulz, “Widespread initiation, reactivation, and acceleration of landslides in the northern California Coast Ranges due to extreme rainfall,” Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, vol. 124, no. 7, pp. 1782-1797, Jul. 2019. (Editors’ Highlights, AGU EOS report, top cited article)
C. Liang, P. Agram, M. Simons, and E. J. Fielding, “Ionospheric correction of InSAR time series analysis of C-band Sentinel-1 TOPS data” IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 57, no. 9, pp. 6755-6773, Sep. 2019.
H. Bao, J.-P. Ampuero, L. Meng, E. J. Fielding, C. Liang, T. Feng, and Hui Huang, “Early and persistent supershear rupture of the 2018 Mw 7.5 Palu earthquake,” Nature Geoscience, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 200-205, Mar. 2019. (Featured Article on Cover, news & views in Science, news & views in Nature Geoscience)
W. Feng, S. Samsonov, C. Liang, J. Li, F. Charbonneau, C. Yu, and Z. Li, “Source parameters of the 2017 Mw 6.2 Yukon earthquake doublet inferred from coseismic GPS and ALOS-2 deformation measurements,” Geophysical Journal International, vol. 216, no. 3, pp. 1517-1528, Mar. 2019.

2018

B. Gombert, Z. Duputel, R. Jolivet, M. Simons, J. Jiang, C. Liang, E. J. Fielding, and L. Rivera, “Strain budget of the Ecuador–Colombia subduction zone: A stochastic view,” Earth and Planetary Science Letters, vol. 498, pp. 288-299, Sep. 2018.
C. Liang, Z. Liu, E. J. Fielding, and R. Bürgmann, “InSAR time series analysis of L-band wide-swath SAR data acquired by ALOS-2,” IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 56, no. 8, pp. 4492-4506, Aug. 2018.
K. Chen, Z. Liu, C. Liang, and Y. T. Song, “Towards the application of seismogeodesy in central Italy: a case study for the 2016 August 24 Mw 6.1 Italy earthquake modelling,” Geophysical Journal International, vol. 213, no. 3, pp. 1647-1658, Jun. 2018.

2017

H. Yue, Z. E. Ross, C. Liang, S. Michel, H. Fattahi, E. Fielding, A. Moore, Z. Liu, and B. Jia, “The 2016 Kumamoto Mw = 7.0 earthquake: A significant event in a fault–volcano system,” Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, vol. 122, no. 11, pp. 9166-9183, Nov. 2017.
C. Liang, E. J. Fielding, and M.-H. Huang, “Estimating azimuth offset with double-difference interferometric phase: The effect of azimuth FM rate error in focusing,” IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 55, no. 12, pp. 7018-7031, Dec. 2017.
H. Yue, M. Simons, Z. Duputel, J. Jiang, E. Fielding, C. Liang, S. Owen, A. Moore, B. Riel, J. P. Ampuero, and S. V. Samsonov, “Depth varying rupture properties during the 2015 Mw 7.8 Gorkha (Nepal) earthquake,” Tectonophysics, vol. 714-715, pp. 44-54, Sep. 2017.
C. Liang and E. J. Fielding, “Interferometry with ALOS-2 full-aperture ScanSAR data,” IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 55, no. 5, pp. 2739-2750, May 2017.
C. Liang and E. J. Fielding, “Measuring azimuth deformation with L-band ALOS-2 ScanSAR interferometry,” IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 55, no. 5, pp. 2725-2738, May 2017.
I. J. Hamling, S. Hreinsdóttir, K. Clark, J. Elliott, C. Liang, E. Fielding, N. Litchfield, P. Villamor, L. Wallace, T. J. Wright, E. D’Anastasio, S. Bannister, D. Burbidge, P. Denys, P. Gentle, J. Howarth, C. Mueller, N. Palmer, C. Pearson, W. Power, P. Barnes, D. J. A. Barrell, R. Van Dissen, R. Langridge, T. Little, A. Nicol, J. Pettinga, J. Rowland, and M. Stirling, “Complex multi-fault rupture during the 2016 Mw 7.8 Kaikōura earthquake, New Zealand,” Science, vol. 356, no. 6334, Apr. 2017. (Cover Story)
D. Melgar, A. Ganas, J. Geng, C. Liang, E. J. Fielding, and I. Kassaras, “Source characteristics of the 2015 Mw6.5 Lefkada, Greece, strike-slip earthquake,” Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, vol. 122, no. 3, pp. 2260-2273, Mar. 2017.
S. Sangha, G. Peltzer, A. Zhang, L. Meng, C. Liang, P. Lundgren, and E. Fielding, “Fault geometry of 2015, Mw7.2 Murghab, Tajikistan earthquake controls rupture propagation: Insights from InSAR and seismological data,” Earth and Planetary Science Letters, vol. 462, pp. 132-141, Mar. 2017.
M.-H. Huang, E. J. Fielding, C. Liang, P. Milillo, D. Bekaert, D. Dreger, and J. Salzer, “Coseismic deformation and triggered landslides of the 2016 Mw 6.2 Amatrice earthquake in Italy,” Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 44, no. 3, pp. 1266-1274, Feb. 2017.

2016

C. Liang and E. J. Fielding, “Interferometric processing of ScanSAR data using stripmap processor: New insights from coregistration,” IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 54, no. 7, pp. 4343-4354, Jul. 2016.
M.-H. Huang, H. Tung, E. J. Fielding, H.-H. Huang, C. Liang, C. Huang, and J.-C. Hu, “Multiple fault slip triggered above the 2016 Mw 6.4 MeiNong earthquake in Taiwan,” Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 43, no. 14, pp. 7459-7467, Jul. 2016.
D. Melgar, W. Fan, S. Riquelme, J. Geng, C. Liang, M. Fuentes, G. Vargas, R. M. Allen, P. M. Shearer, and E. J. Fielding, “Slip segmentation and slow rupture to the trench during the 2015, Mw8.3 Illapel, Chile earthquake,” Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 43, no. 3, pp. 961-966, Feb. 2016.

2015

S.-H. Yun, K. Hudnut, S. Owen, F. Webb, M. Simons, P. Sacco, E. Gurrola, G. Manipon, C. Liang, E. Fielding, P. Milillo, H. Hua, and A. Coletta, “Rapid damage mapping for the 2015 Mw 7.8 Gorkha earthquake using synthetic aperture radar data from COSMO-SkyMed and ALOS-2 satellites” Seismological Research Letters, vol. 86, no. 6, pp. 1549-1556, Nov./Dec. 2015.

2014

C. Liang, Q. Zeng, and J. Jiao, “An assessment of ScanSAR interferometric processing using full-aperture approach,” IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, vol. 11, no. 9, pp. 1559-1563, Sep. 2014.
C. Liang, Q. Zeng, J. Jiao, and X. Cui, “On the phase compensation of short ScanSAR burst focused by long matched filter for interferometric processing,” IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 52, no. 2, pp. 1299-1310, Feb. 2014.

2013

P. Li, Z. Li, C. Shi, W. Feng, C. Liang, T. Li, Q. Zeng, and J. Liu, “Impacts of geoid height on large-scale crustal deformation mapping with InSAR observations,” Chinese Journal of Geophysics, vol. 56, no. 6, pp. 1857-1867, Jun. 2013.
C. Liang, Q. Zeng, J. Jiao, and X. Cui, “A new method of removing unsynchronized signal for ScanSAR interferometry,” IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 278-282, Mar. 2013.
C. Liang, Q. Zeng, J. Jia, J. Jiao, and X. Cui, “ScanSAR interferometric processing using existing standard InSAR software for measuring large scale land deformation,” Computers & Geosciences, vol. 51, pp. 439-448, Feb. 2013.