TY - JOUR
T1 - The Variation in Microwave Brightness Temperature of Granite Pressed under Weak Background Radiation
AU - Gao, Xiang
AU - Liu, Shanjun
AU - Wu, Lixin
AU - Mao, Wenfei
AU - Li, Wenwen
AU - Huang, Jianwei
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Manuscript received January 1, 2020; revised April 13, 2020; accepted May 3, 2020. Date of publication June 10, 2020; date of current version January 21, 2021. This work was supported in part by the Key Program of National Nature Science Foundation of China under Grant 41930108, in part by the National Key Research and Development Program of China under Grant 2018YFC15035, and in part by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities under Grant N170106002. (Corresponding author: Shanjun Liu.) Xiang Gao, Shanjun Liu, and Wenfei Mao are with the College of Resources and Civil Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang 110819, China (e-mail: gaoxiang1606@163.com; liusjdr@126.com; maowf2014@126.com).
Funding Information:
This work was supported in part by the Key Program of National Nature Science Foundation of China under Grant 41930108, in part by the National Key Research and Development Program of China under Grant 2018YFC15035, and in part by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities under Grant N170106002.
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PY - 2021/2
Y1 - 2021/2
N2 - Generally, ground stress accumulates in the process of earthquake (EQ) preparation. The change trend of microwave brightness temperature ( T_{B} ) of rock with stress change is an important factor for the understanding of the microwave anomalies associated with EQs. However, it is not yet clear whether the downtrend of rocks' T_{B} is associated with increased stress. To confirm this, in this article, the instantaneous field of view of the microwave radiometer was identified first. Then, the microwave observation experiments were conducted on granite samples at 6.6 GHz under cyclic loading and outdoor conditions with weak background radiation. It was found that besides uptrend and fluctuation, the downtrend of granite samples' T_{B} also correlates with stress, with an occurrence probability of 47.62% and a maximum rate of -0.038 K/MPa. The variation trends of T_{B} with stress are not uniform across different areas of the same sample. To reveal the cause of this phenomenon, the permittivity of single-crystal quartz, one of the main mineral compositions of granite, was measured when it was under compassion loading at the direction perpendicular or parallel to the optical axis. For quartz, the real part of the permittivity rises (falls) when the two directions are perpendicular (parallel), causing the T_{B} to fall (rise). The optic axes of minerals are randomly distributed in granite samples, which make the variation in the permittivity of minerals also random, thereby resulting in the nonuniformity of stress-induced T_{B} variation in granite samples. Finally, the implications of these results were discussed.
AB - Generally, ground stress accumulates in the process of earthquake (EQ) preparation. The change trend of microwave brightness temperature ( T_{B} ) of rock with stress change is an important factor for the understanding of the microwave anomalies associated with EQs. However, it is not yet clear whether the downtrend of rocks' T_{B} is associated with increased stress. To confirm this, in this article, the instantaneous field of view of the microwave radiometer was identified first. Then, the microwave observation experiments were conducted on granite samples at 6.6 GHz under cyclic loading and outdoor conditions with weak background radiation. It was found that besides uptrend and fluctuation, the downtrend of granite samples' T_{B} also correlates with stress, with an occurrence probability of 47.62% and a maximum rate of -0.038 K/MPa. The variation trends of T_{B} with stress are not uniform across different areas of the same sample. To reveal the cause of this phenomenon, the permittivity of single-crystal quartz, one of the main mineral compositions of granite, was measured when it was under compassion loading at the direction perpendicular or parallel to the optical axis. For quartz, the real part of the permittivity rises (falls) when the two directions are perpendicular (parallel), causing the T_{B} to fall (rise). The optic axes of minerals are randomly distributed in granite samples, which make the variation in the permittivity of minerals also random, thereby resulting in the nonuniformity of stress-induced T_{B} variation in granite samples. Finally, the implications of these results were discussed.
KW - Background radiation
KW - earthquake (EQ)
KW - granite
KW - microwave radiation
KW - permittivity
KW - stress
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U2 - 10.1109/TGRS.2020.2994439
DO - 10.1109/TGRS.2020.2994439
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85099785911
SN - 0196-2892
VL - 59
SP - 1369
EP - 1381
JO - IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
JF - IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
IS - 2
M1 - 9113698
ER -