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Title: Spatio–Temporal Analysis of Deformation at San Emidio Geothermal Field, Nevada, USA Between 1992 and 2010

Abstract

Although subsidence has been observed at the San Emidio geothermal field in Nevada using interferometric synthetic aperture radar since the early 1990s, the spatial extent and temporal evolution of the subsidence have not heretofore been quantified. Furthermore, the weather conditions and geographic location of San Emidio negatively affect interferometric image quality, causing low correlation amongst pairs. To address this, we introduce a new method for selecting pairs in areas of low correlation and small deformation signal using a minimum spanning tree method with a measure of image quality as the weighting criterion. We validate our pair selection approach by comparing our data products to SqueeSAR TM data products from a previous study at San Emidio. We also develop a deformation model which characterizes the spatial extent of subsidence at San Emidio in terms of volume change of the reservoir. After applying this deformation model to our data set of interferometric pairs, we examine the temporal relationship of the observed deformation with production and injection operations associated with geothermal power production.

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OSTI Identifier:
1557889
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Resource Type:
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Journal Name:
Remote Sensing
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: Remote Sensing Journal Volume: 11 Journal Issue: 16; Journal ID: ISSN 2072-4292
Publisher:
MDPI AG
Country of Publication:
Switzerland
Language:
English

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Reinisch, Elena C., Cardiff, Michael, Akerley, John, Warren, Ian, and Feigl, Kurt L. Spatio–Temporal Analysis of Deformation at San Emidio Geothermal Field, Nevada, USA Between 1992 and 2010. Switzerland: N. p., 2019. Web. doi:10.3390/rs11161935.
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Reinisch, Elena C., Cardiff, Michael, Akerley, John, Warren, Ian, & Feigl, Kurt L. Spatio–Temporal Analysis of Deformation at San Emidio Geothermal Field, Nevada, USA Between 1992 and 2010. Switzerland. doi:10.3390/rs11161935.
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Reinisch, Elena C., Cardiff, Michael, Akerley, John, Warren, Ian, and Feigl, Kurt L. Mon . "Spatio–Temporal Analysis of Deformation at San Emidio Geothermal Field, Nevada, USA Between 1992 and 2010". Switzerland. doi:10.3390/rs11161935.
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@article{osti_1557889,
title = {Spatio–Temporal Analysis of Deformation at San Emidio Geothermal Field, Nevada, USA Between 1992 and 2010},
author = {Reinisch, Elena C. and Cardiff, Michael and Akerley, John and Warren, Ian and Feigl, Kurt L.},
abstractNote = {Although subsidence has been observed at the San Emidio geothermal field in Nevada using interferometric synthetic aperture radar since the early 1990s, the spatial extent and temporal evolution of the subsidence have not heretofore been quantified. Furthermore, the weather conditions and geographic location of San Emidio negatively affect interferometric image quality, causing low correlation amongst pairs. To address this, we introduce a new method for selecting pairs in areas of low correlation and small deformation signal using a minimum spanning tree method with a measure of image quality as the weighting criterion. We validate our pair selection approach by comparing our data products to SqueeSAR TM data products from a previous study at San Emidio. We also develop a deformation model which characterizes the spatial extent of subsidence at San Emidio in terms of volume change of the reservoir. After applying this deformation model to our data set of interferometric pairs, we examine the temporal relationship of the observed deformation with production and injection operations associated with geothermal power production.},
doi = {10.3390/rs11161935},
journal = {Remote Sensing},
number = 16,
volume = 11,
place = {Switzerland},
year = {2019},
month = {8}
}
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