Atmospheric Phase Screen Compensation on Wrapped Ground-Based SAR Interferograms
- 15 February 2021
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
- Vol. 60 (01962892), 1-15
- https://doi.org/10.1109/tgrs.2021.3055648
Abstract
This work proposes a method for estimating and compensating the atmospheric phase screen (APS) in sets of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) interferograms generated with a ground-based SAR (GB-SAR) instrument. We address the presented approach's physical, statistical, and mathematical framework by discussing its potential and limitations. In contrast with other existing algorithms that estimate the APS from the unwrapped phase signals, our methodology is based on the straightforward analysis of the wrapped phases, directly. Therefore, the method is not affected by any potential phase unwrapping mistake, and it is suitable for multitemporal interferometric SAR (InSAR) applications. The effects of the local topography, the decorrelation noise, and the ground deformation on the APS estimates are deeply studied. Experiments performed on simulated and real GB-SAR InSAR data corroborate the validity of the theory. In particular, the simulated results show that the method is beneficial in zones with medium-to-high topographic slopes (e.g., for Alpine and mountainous regions).Keywords
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