A Polarization Stacking Method for Optimizing Time-Series Interferometric Phases of Distributed Scatterers

Autor: Peng Shen, Changcheng Wang, Jun Hu
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Remote Sensing, Vol 14, Iss 17, p 4168 (2022)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2072-4292
DOI: 10.3390/rs14174168
Popis: For time-series interferometric phases optimization of distributed scatterers (DSs), the SqueeSAR technology used the phase linking (PL) to extract the equivalent single-master (ESM) interferometric phases from the multilooking time-series coherence matrix. The Cramer–Rao lower bound (CRLB) for the PL describes the highest achievable estimation accuracy of the ESM phases, which depends on the number of looks and the time-series coherence magnitude matrix. With the abundance of time-series polarimetric SAR data, many scholars have studied the coherence magnitude-based polarimetric optimization methods for optimizing the DS’s time-series interferometric phases, for example, the widely-used exhaustive search polarimetric optimization (ESPO) algorithm. However, the traditional polarimetric optimization methods select the boundary extremums of the coherence region (CR) as the optimized complex coherence, which is usually biased from the free-noise one. Currently, in the polarimetric InSAR (PolInSAR) technology, Shen et al. innovatively considered polarimetric information as statistical samples and proposed the total power (TP) coherency matrix construction method for increasing the number of looks and reducing the interferometric phase noise. Therefore, to optimize the time-series interferometric phases for DS, this paper proposes performing a polarization stacking and extending the PolInSAR TP construction to the time-series PolInSAR (TSPolInSAR) data configuration, called the time-series TP (TSTP) method. Simulated and real experiments prove that the new TSTP construction method has better performance and higher efficiency than the single polarimetric and the traditional ESPO algorithms.
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