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Fringe image
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Image with radar interferometric fringes. Each colour cycle corresponds to 28 mm of surface movement towards the satellite (23 degrees to the vertical). Assuming a tectonic movement in the east-west direction and the satellite heading south, calculate the horizontal component of the movement.

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