The ever-increasing temporal resolution and spatial coverage of radar interferometry (InSAR) satellite data has expanded the application fields of InSAR. For tectonic studies of active faulting and continental-scale deformation, the use of InSAR has gradually evolved from local-scale studies of earthquakes and fault seismic cycle (e.g., Bürgmann et al., 2000;Massonnet et al., 1993) to analyzes at the large-scale of major fault systems and plate-tectonics (e.g.,
<p>The global and systematic coverage of Sentinel-1 radar images allows characterizing, by radar interferometry (InSAR), surface deformation on a continental scale.</p><p>Our study focuses on the eastern part of the Tibetan plateau, where a combination of major strike-slip and thrust fault systems accommodates part of the deformation related to the collision between the Indian and Eurasian plates.</p><p>We use an automated Sentinel-1 InSAR processing chain based on the NSBAS approach (Doin et al., 2011, Grandin, 2015) to measure the interseismic deformation across these fault systems. Processing is made on the CNES high-performance computer center in Toulouse in the FLATSIM project framework (ForM@Ter LArge-scale multi-Temporal Sentinel-1 Interferometric Measurement, Durand et al., 2019). We perform a time series analysis of the 2014-2020 Sentinel-1 InSAR data set, for 1200 km-long tracks (acquired along 7 ascending and 7 descending orbits), covering a 1&#160;700&#160;000 km<sup>2</sup> area, with a 160 m spatial resolution. From about 130 acquisitions per track, we perform about 600 interferograms, with short, three months, and one-year temporal baselines. After inversion, we obtain time series of line-of-sight (LOS) delay maps, including residual atmospheric delay and network misclosure measurements. The time series are fitted by a seasonal signal plus a velocity trend. The velocity field on overlap areas agrees within less than 1~mm/yr.</p><p>Finally, we decompose the LOS velocity maps into a vertical and a horizontal contribution.</p><p>InSAR velocity maps highlight surface deformation patterns mostly localized on known major faults, short-wavelength patterns attributed to slope instabilities phenomena, and hydrological signals.</p><p>The seasonal signal combines residual atmospheric phase delays and widespread hydrological phenomena in sedimentary basins, which we interpret in parallel with the regional geological map.&#160; Masking areas affected by dominant gravitational slope or hydrological deformation allows to better focus on tectonic deformation.</p><p>We finally discuss slip partitioning on the various fault systems from the velocity maps and 2D profiles&#8217; analysis.</p>
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