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Land subsidence in the Nile Delta of Egypt observed by persistent scatterer interferometry

Mohamed H. Aly Department of Earth Sciences, University of California-Riverside, Riverside, CA, 92521, USACorrespondence[email protected]
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Andrew G. Klein Department of Geography, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, 77843, USA
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Howard A. Zebker Department of Geophysics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA
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John R. Giardino Department of Geography, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, 77843, USA
Pages 621-630 | Received 17 Oct 2011, Accepted 17 Dec 2011, Published online: 12 Jan 2012

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