Publications

Publications from My Research Group (* Student Advised, # Corresponding Author)

P1. Kunyi Chen* and Cunren Liang#, “Precision of InSAR time series at different wavelengths: Effects of random-motion-induced temporal decorrelation,” IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 64, pp. 1-15, 2026.
P2. Fan Yang*, Cunren Liang#, and Yuhang Wang*, “InSAR phase errors due to range misregistrations,” IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 64, pp. 1-19, 2026.
P3. Yuhang Wang*, Cunren Liang#, Fan Yang*, Ligong Yang, Shangzong Lu, Xue Li*, and Qiming Zeng, “Global radio frequency interference in L-band SAR data from ALOS-1 and JERS-1 satellites,” Remote Sensing of Environment, vol. 330, pp. 1-21, 2025.
P4. Cunren Liang#, Eric J. Fielding, Zhen Liu, Takeshi Motohka, Ryo Natsuaki, and Sang-Ho Yun, “An analysis of the potentials of L-band SAR satellites for measuring azimuth motion,” Remote Sensing of Environment, vol. 315, pp. 1-19, 2024.
P5. Fan Yang*, Yuhang Wang*, Cunren Liang#, and Kunyi Chen*, “InSAR and closure phase errors due to the along-track ionospheric variations within the synthetic aperture,” IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 64, pp. 1-28, 2026.
P6. Xue Li*, Cunren Liang#, Jiafeng Li, and Kejie Chen, “An evaluation of Global Ionosphere Maps for the ionospheric correction of C-band InSAR data,” Journal of Geodesy, vol. 100, pp. 1-23, 2026.
P7. Yuhang Wang*, Cunren Liang#, Xue Li*, Fan Yang*, and Kunyi Chen*, “On the range spectral loss in InSAR,” Revised, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing.
P8. Yusheng Li*, Cunren Liang#, and Yuhang Wang*, “Precision of phase correlation for speckle tracking,” Under review.
P9. Kunyi Chen*, Cunren Liang#, Fan Yang*, Xue Li*, and Yuhang Wang*, “Secondary InSAR ionospheric phase in NISAR data,” Under review.
P10. Cunren Liang#, Xue Li*, Yuhang Wang*, Zhen Liu, Mark Simons, Eric J. Fielding, Yuan-Kai Liu, and Sang-Ho Yun, “Evaluating ALOS-2 L-band InSAR observations of tectonic motion in the Western United States,” Under review.
P11. Guanshu Ao*, Cunren Liang#, and Yuxiao Qin, “Overestimation of InSAR coherence due to RCS inhomogeneity,” Under review.

Co-authored Publications

Peng Li, Jiahan Zhang, Fengling Yu, Kai Tan, Nan Xu, Chunpeng Chen, Pengfei Tang, Cunren Liang, Zhenhong Li, Houjie Wang, “Delta-Scale 10-m Tidal Flat Topography Reconstruction: A Transferable Deep Learning Approach Using Sentinel-2 Time Series,” IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 64, pp. 1-12, 2026.
Peng Li, Jianbo Bai, Lin Shen, Wei Tang, Cunren Liang, Bin Zhao, Zhenhong Li, and Houjie Wang, “Large-scale high-resolution coastal subsidence mapping in eastern China with Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2: Heterogeneous patterns and primary drivers,” International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, vol. 146, pp. 1-18, February 2026.
Yidi Wang, Zhang Yunjun, Ningbo Wang, Runqing Liu, Cunren Liang, Yosuke Aoki, and Robert Wang, “Towards Long-Wavelength Ionospheric Correction of InSAR Time Series Using GNSS-Based TEC,” IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 64, pp. 1-14, 2026.
Jingtian Zhou, Yang Lei, Jinmei Pan, Cunren Liang, Zhang Yunjun, Weiliang Li, Chuan Xiong, Jiancheng Shi, and Wei Ma, “Snow water equivalent retrieval and analysis over Altay using 12 d repeat-pass Sentinel-1 interferometry,” The Cryosphere, vol. 19, no. 11, pp. 5361-5388, November 2025.
Shangzong Lu, Cunren Liang, and Qiming Zeng, “Limitations of earthquake coseismic deformation measurements using InSAR,” International Journal of Remote Sensing, vol. 46, no. 5, pp. 2212-2232, January 2025.
Chaoqi Lin, Kejie Chen, Cunren Liang, Hai Zhu, Wenfeng Cui, Haishan Chai, Mingjia Li, Changhu Xue, Zhiwen Zheng, and Zhanhui Qing, “Subsidence detection in southwest Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao Greater Bay Area using InSAR with GNSS corrected tropospheric delays,” Advances in Space Research, vol. 75, no. 1, pp. 190-204, January 2025.
Peng Li, Shu Li, Zhenhong Li, Cunren Liang, and Houjie Wang, “Detailed detection and extraction of estuarine tidal channels with multispectral and full‐polarised SAR remote sensing,” Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, vol. 49, no. 12, pp. 3968-3988, September 2024.
Kejie Chen, Guoguang Wei, Christopher Milliner, Luca Dal Zilio, Cunren Liang, and Jean-Philippe Avouac, “Super-shear ruptures steered by pre-stress heterogeneities during the 2023 Kahramanmaraş earthquake doublet,” Nature Communications, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 1-11, August 2024.
Peng Li, Yun Zhang, Cunren Liang, Houjie Wang, and Zhenhong Li, “High spatiotemporal resolution river networks mapping on catchment scale using satellite remote sensing imagery and DEM data,” Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 51, no. 6, pp. 1-11, March 2024.
Emmanuel Caballero, Zacharie Duputel, Cedric Twardzik, Luis Rivera, Emilie Klein, Junle Jiang, Cunren Liang, Lijun Zhu, Romain Jolivet, Eric Fielding, and Mark Simons, “Revisiting the 2015 Mw = 8.3 Illapel earthquake: unveiling complex fault slip properties using Bayesian inversion,” Geophysical Journal International, vol. 235, no. 3, pp. 2828-2845, December 2023.
Liuwei Xu, Saeed Mohanna, Lingsen Meng, Chen Ji, Jean-Paul Ampuero, Zhang Yunjun, Masooma Hasnain, Risheng Chu, and Cunren Liang, “The overall-subshear and multi-segment rupture of the 2023 Mw 7.8 Kahramanmaraş, Turkey earthquake in millennia supercycle,” Communications Earth & Environment, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 1-13, October 2023.
Peng Li, Guoyang Wang, Cunren Liang, Houjie Wang, and Zhenhong Li, “InSAR-derived coastal subsidence reveals new inundation scenarios over the Yellow River Delta,” IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, vol. 16, pp. 8431-8441, 2023.
Guoyang Wang, Peng Li, Zhenhong Li, Cunren Liang, and Houjie Wang, “Coastal subsidence detection and characterization caused by brine mining over the Yellow River Delta using time series InSAR and PCA,” International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, vol. 114, pp. 1-17, November 2022.
Kejie Chen, Jean-Philippe Avouac, Jianghui Geng, Cunren Liang, Zhenguo Zhang, Zhicai Li, and Shengpeng Zhang, “The 2021 Mw 7.4 Madoi Earthquake: An Archetype Bilateral Slip‐Pulse Rupture Arrested at a Splay Fault,” Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 49, no. 2, pp. 1-9, January 2022.

Prior to joining Peking University

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.