Capabilities of Differential Interferometric SAR Technology and GESS Plan for Earthquake Prediction Bahram Safaee MSc Student of Remote Sensing K.N.Toosi university of technology (faculty of Civil), Iran Email: bssafaee@yahoo.com Abbas Alimohmmadi assistant professor K.N.Toosi university of technology (faculty of Civil) Email: alimoh_abb@yahoo.com For high seismic regions, prediction of earthquakes is an important component of disaster management systems. By reliable prediction of earthquakes, in terms of magnitude, time and space, significant advances in control and management of the expected risks and hazards can be achieved. Until now many seismic, geodetic, electromagnetic and biologic precursors have been proposed which geodetic precursors play a major role for identification of high risk regions. While geodetic precursors have often been used for long term earthquake prediction, but sometimes, they have also been used as short term precursors. Today, many dense networks of GPS receivers have been set up to detect and analyze surface displacements. Another technique which can be used besides GPS networks to detect the small displacements is Differential interferometric SAR which is capable of detecting displacements in some millimeter ranges. Application of this technology as a complementary system to GPS networks may help to overcome some limitations with GPS networks such as the need to set up widespread networks of receivers and also, difficulties for monitoring of underground faults. In this paper, some examples of long term and short term earthquake predictions by using geodetic precursors have been provided. Then differential interferometric SAR technology and capabilities of the GESS plan as an effective tool for prediction of earthquakes have been discussed.