About the ARIA Project

Background

Space-based geodetic measurement techniques such as Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR), Differential Global Positioning System (DGPS), and image pixel tracking have recently become critical additions to our toolset for understanding earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and other natural hazards.

Geodetic imaging’s unique ability to capture surface deformation caused by earthquakes and subsurface magma movement with high spatial and temporal resolution has revolutionized both earthquake science and volcanology. Analyses of these data sets are typically handcrafted following each event and are not generated rapidly and reliably enough for response to natural disasters.

Mission

The Advanced Rapid Imaging and Analysis (ARIA) Project will bring geodetic imaging capabilities to an operational level in support of local, national, and international hazard science and response communities.

The Advanced Rapid Imaging and Analysis (ARIA) Project, a joint effort of California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), is developing the infrastructure to generate imaging products in near real-time that can improve situational awareness for disaster response. The ARIA Project is also developing provide automated imaging and analysis capabilities necessary to keep up with the increase in raw data from geodetic imaging missions planned for launch by NASA, as well as international space agencies.

Team

Leadership
David Bekaert Project Scientist and Science Product Lead	Hook Hua Data System Lead	Sang-Ho Yun Disaster Response Lead

Advisory Board
Jennifer Cruz	Sue Owen	Paul Rosen
Mark Simons	Frank Webb

Current Members
Alphan Altinok	Nicholas Arena	Brian Bue
Luciana Cendon	Ryan Constantino	Alex E Dunn
Eric Fielding	Emre Havazli	Jungkyo Jung
Mohammed Karim	Madeline Lambert	Cunren Liang
Zhen Liu	Marjorie Lucas	Paul Lundgren
Namrata Malarout	Gerald Manipon	Angelyn Moore
Lei Pan	Giangi Sacco	Simran Sangha
Alexander Torres	Zhangfan Xing	Andrew Zhang

Former Members
Piyush Agram	Michael Aivazis	Rowan E Biessel (intern)
Adam Brackman (intern)	Rebecca Butcher (intern)	Lan Dang
Tom Farr	Eric Gurrola	Monghan Huang
Joseph Jacob	Emmy Killet	Judy Lai-Norling
Justin Linick	Pietro Milillo	Jascha Polet
Costin Radulescu	Michael Starch	Timothy Stough