"Modern" Geophysical Geodesy
The advent of global positioning
system, satellite radar interferometry and precision gravity
measurement technique has been undoubtedly revolutionalizing geodesy. More than 15
years ago, Lambeck (1988) coined a term, "Geophysical Geodesy", in the title of
his seminal textbook, and described how geodetic tools had uniquely revealed
a variety of phenomenon in the Earth. Following the same line of philosophy, my research interests are to
reveal what's going on within the Earth system by employing mainly (but not limited to) geodetic techniques and
to better understand them as geophysical phenomena by devising quantitative (but as simple as possible) models. By "modern" geophysical geodesy, I mean we are
now equipped with InSAR and other newer techniques that were not extensively
described in the Lambeck's text.
Keywords: InSAR (interferometric SAR), geodesy, volcano, earthquake, wobble, glacier