Linear and nonlinear terrain deformation maps from a reduced set of interferometric SAR images
Mora, O.
Mallorqui, J.J.
Broquetas, A.
Departament of Teoria del Senyal i Comunicacions, Univ. Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain;
This paper appears in: Geoscience and Remote Sensing, IEEE Transactions on
Publication Date: Oct. 2003
Volume: 41,
Issue: 10, Part 1
On page(s): 2243- 2253
ISSN: 0196-2892
INSPEC Accession Number: 7778605
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TGRS.2003.814657
Current Version Published: 2003-10-20
Abstract
In this paper, an advanced technique for the generation of deformation maps using synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data is presented. The algorithm estimates the linear and nonlinear components of the displacement, the error of the digital elevation model (DEM) used to cancel the topographic terms, and the atmospheric artifacts from a reduced set of low spatial resolution interferograms. The pixel candidates are selected from those presenting a good coherence level in the whole set of interferograms and the resulting nonuniform mesh tessellated with the Delauney triangulation to establish connections among them. The linear component of movement and DEM error are estimated adjusting a linear model to the data only on the connections. Later on, this information, once unwrapped to retrieve the absolute values, is used to calculate the nonlinear component of movement and atmospheric artifacts with alternate filtering techniques in both the temporal and spatial domains. The method presents high flexibility with respect to the required number of images and the baselines length. However, better results are obtained with large datasets of short baseline interferograms. The technique has been tested with European Remote Sensing SAR data from an area of Catalonia (Spain) and validated with on-field precise leveling measurements.
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