The state-of-the-art techniques have demonstrated that coherence error degrades the performance of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) interferometry (InSAR) for distributed scatterers (DSs). This article aims at fully evaluating the influence of coherence error on DS InSAR time-series analysis. In particular, we present a methodology to increase the estimation accuracy of DS interferometry, with emphasis on spatiotemporal coherence refinement. The motive behind this is that bias removal and variance mitigation of sample coherence matrix impose optimum weighting for estimating phase series and geophysical parameters of interest, whereas maximization of temporal coherence in a reference network can avoid spatial error propagation during the least-squares adjustment. Rather than developing independent processing chains, we integrate this method into SqueeSAR technique and simultaneously take the advantage of StaMPS into consideration. Using simulation and real data over southwestern China, comprehensive comparisons before and after spatiotemporal coherence refinement are performed over various coherence scenarios. The results tested from different phase and displacement rate estimators validate the effectiveness of the presented method.

Distributed Scatterer Interferometry With the Refinement of Spatiotemporal Coherence

Andrea Monti Guarnieri
2020-01-01

Abstract

The state-of-the-art techniques have demonstrated that coherence error degrades the performance of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) interferometry (InSAR) for distributed scatterers (DSs). This article aims at fully evaluating the influence of coherence error on DS InSAR time-series analysis. In particular, we present a methodology to increase the estimation accuracy of DS interferometry, with emphasis on spatiotemporal coherence refinement. The motive behind this is that bias removal and variance mitigation of sample coherence matrix impose optimum weighting for estimating phase series and geophysical parameters of interest, whereas maximization of temporal coherence in a reference network can avoid spatial error propagation during the least-squares adjustment. Rather than developing independent processing chains, we integrate this method into SqueeSAR technique and simultaneously take the advantage of StaMPS into consideration. Using simulation and real data over southwestern China, comprehensive comparisons before and after spatiotemporal coherence refinement are performed over various coherence scenarios. The results tested from different phase and displacement rate estimators validate the effectiveness of the presented method.
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