SAR Interferometric Baseline Refinement Based on Flat-Earth Phase without a Ground Control Point

Autor: Bing Xu, Zhiwei Li, Yan Zhu, Jiancun Shi, Guangcai Feng
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Remote Sensing, Vol 12, Iss 2, p 233 (2020)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2072-4292
DOI: 10.3390/rs12020233
Popis: Interferometric baseline estimation is a key procedure of interferometric synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data processing. The error of the interferometric baseline affects not only the removal of the flat-earth phase, but also the transformation coefficient between the topographic phase and elevation, which will affect the topographic phase removal for differential interferometric SAR (D-InSAR) and the accuracy of the final generated digital elevation model (DEM) product for interferometric synthetic aperture (InSAR). To obtain a highly accurate interferometric baseline, this paper firstly investigates the geometry of InSAR imaging and establishes a rigorous relationship between the interferometric baseline and the flat-earth phase. Then, a baseline refinement method without a ground control point (GCP) is proposed, where a relevant theoretical model and resolving method are developed. Synthetic and real SAR datasets are used in the experiments, and a comparison with the conventional least-square (LS) baseline refinement method is made. The results demonstrate that the proposed method exhibits an obvious improvement over the conventional LS method, with percentages of up to 51.5% in the cross-track direction. Therefore, the proposed method is effective and advantageous.
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