A new approach to model the kinematics of crustal deformation with applications to the Aegean and Southeast Asia

An important factor in the study of lithospheric deformation is an accurate representation of the kinematics of the Earth's crust. This thesis presents a new inversion method to model the present-day kinematics of the deformation field of the Earth's surface by the use of (space) geodetic measurements of relative motion. The aim of the method is...