SCEC Award Number 10180 View PDF
Proposal Category Individual Proposal (Integration and Theory)
Proposal Title Strain transient detection and modeling with geodetic data
Investigator(s)
Name Organization
Gareth Funning University of California, Riverside
Other Participants Floyd, Michael
Lipovsky, Brad
SCEC Priorities A5, A10, D SCEC Groups Geodesy, CDM
Report Due Date 02/28/2011 Date Report Submitted N/A
Project Abstract
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Intellectual Merit We developed a system that will detect anomalous strain transients (2010 SCEC RFP, Science Objective A5), a method that has proven effective on test data from the SCEC Transient Detection project. Our method, based upon the successive windowing of data is more effective than conventional eigen-decomposition methods, but without great additional computational cost. Additionally, we applied our statistical approaches to real data, a long-term goal of transient detection.
Broader Impacts Ability to identify deformation transients in a timely fashion may have implications for the short term forecasting of elevated seismic hazard, which would be a major societal benefit. The majority of the work was performed by graduate student Brad Lipovsky, who was responsible for the formulation of hypotheses, development and testing of computational methods, and the majority of the report writing; this work constituted the first externally funded research project that he conceived of and executed himself, and as such represents an important step in his training as a research scientist.
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