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As case study, we apply this method to a six year GNSS campaign (2003\u20132008) set up in the southern portion of the Pollino Range over the Castrovillari and Pollino faults. We show that regional deformation alone cannot explain the observed deformation pattern and implies high geodetic strain rate, with a WSW-ENE extension of 86\u00b141\u00d710\u22129\/yr. Allowing for the possibility of fault creep, the modelling of GNSS velocities is consistent with their uncertainties and they are mainly explained by a shallow creep over the Pollino fault, with a normal\/strike-slip mechanism up to 5 mm\/yr. The regional strain rate decrease by about 70 percent and is characterized by WNW-ESE extension of 24\u00b128\u00d710\u22129\/yr. The large uncertainties affecting our estimate of regional strain rate do not allow infering whether the tectonic regime of the area is extensional or strike-slip, although the latter is slightly more likely.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs12182921","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,9,9]],"date-time":"2020-09-09T09:01:09Z","timestamp":1599642069000},"page":"2921","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":7,"title":["New Insights into Long-Term Aseismic Deformation and Regional Strain Rates from GNSS Data Inversion: The Case of the Pollino and Castrovillari Faults"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"12","author":[{"given":"Gabriele","family":"Cambiotti","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Earth Sciences, Universit\u00e0 degli Studi di Milano, 20133 Milan, Italy"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-7254-7855","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Mimmo","family":"Palano","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Osservatorio Etneo, 95125 Catania, Italy"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Barbara","family":"Orecchio","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Physics and Earth Sciences, Messina University, 98166 Messina, Italy"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Anna Maria","family":"Marotta","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Earth Sciences, Universit\u00e0 degli Studi di Milano, 20133 Milan, Italy"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Riccardo","family":"Barzaghi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Politecnico di Milano, DICA, 20133 Milan, Italy"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Giancarlo","family":"Neri","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Physics and Earth Sciences, Messina University, 98166 Messina, Italy"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Roberto","family":"Sabadini","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Earth Sciences, Universit\u00e0 degli Studi di Milano, 20133 Milan, Italy"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,9,9]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"195","DOI":"10.1046\/j.1365-246X.1998.00633.x","article-title":"Crustal strain in central Greece from repeated GPS measurements in the interval 1989\u20131997","volume":"135","author":"Clarke","year":"1998","journal-title":"Geophys. 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