A novel fast phase unwrapping method for large interferometric datasets

Phase unwrapping, a process of recovering the real phase from ambiguous one, is one of key techniques for interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) data processing. The larger interferograms make the phase unwrapping to be a more challenging task. A novel fast phase unwrapping method is proposed in this paper which is very effective in dealing with the large scale datasets. Several sub-networks consisting of residues are constructed in the method. Therefore, smaller networks make the execution more efficient using minimum cost flows(MCF) algorithm. In addition, the method takes an effective strategy to balance all the sub-networks in order to ensure a feasible solution to each sub-network. Experiment with real data demonstrates the effectiveness of the proposed method.