Algebraic phase unwrapping over collection of triangles based on two-dimensional spline smoothing

Phase unwrapping is a reconstruction problem of the continuous phase function from its finite wrapped samples. Especially the two-dimensional phase unwrapping has been a common key for estimating many crucial physical information, e.g, the surface topography measured by interferometric synthetic aperture radar. However almost all two-dimensional phase unwrapping algorithms are suffering from either the path dependence or the excess smoothness of the estimated result. In this paper, to guarantee the path independence and the appropriate smoothness of the estimated result, we present a novel algebraic approach by combining the ideas in the algebraic phase unwrapping with techniques for a piecewise polynomial interpolation of two-dimensional finite data sequence.