Research Interests
Research Interests
My principal research interests include the use of Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) to study geophysical phenomena
that causes crustal deformation, InSAR atmospheric
correction, and InSAR time series analysis.
Selected Publications
Xu,
W., J. Ruch, and S. Jónsson, Birth of two volcanic islands in the southern Red
Sea, Nature Communications, 6:7104, doi:
10.1038/ncomms8104, 2015.
Xu, W., R. Dutta, S. Jónsson,
Identifying active faults by improving earthquake locations with InSAR data and
Bayesian estimation: The 2004 Tabuk (Saudi Arabia) earthquake sequence, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., 105(2a), doi:
10.1785/0120140289, 2015.
Xu, W. and S. Jónsson, The 2007–8 volcanic eruption on Jebel at Tair Island (Red Sea), observed by satellite radar and optical images, Bulletin of Volcanology, 76:795, doi: 10.1007/s00445-014-0795-9, 2014.
Li, Z. W. Xu, G. Feng, J. Hu, W. Changcheng, X. Ding and J. Zhu, Correcting atmospheric effects on InSAR with MERIS water vapour data and elevation-dependent interpolation model. Geophysical Journal International, 189(2): 898-910, 2012.
Xu, W., Z. Li, X. Ding and J. Zhu. Interpolating atmospheric water vapor delay by incorporating
terrain elevation information. Journal of
Geodesy, 85: 555-564, DOI: 10.1007/s00190-011-0456-0, 2011.