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http://dx.doi.org/10.7780/kjrs.2011.27.2.171

Topographic Phase Correction of MAl (Multiple Aperture SAR Interferometry) Interferogram  

Jung, Hyung-Sup (Department of Geoinformatics, The University of Seoul)
Lu, Zhong (Cascades Volcano Observatory, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS))
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Korean Journal of Remote Sensing / v.27, no.2, 2011 , pp. 171-180 More about this Journal
Abstract
MAI (multiple aperture SAR interferometry) method has been recently developed to improve the measurement accuracy of along-track surface deformation. By means of split-beam SAR processing, this novel technique produces forward- and backward-looking interferograms, which are combined to generate an MAI interferogram. The along-track surface deformation can then be derived from the MAI interferogram. The achieved accuracy of the along-track surface deformation is approximately 8 cm for interferograms with a coherence of 0.6. It is commonly recognized that the topographic phase on an MAI interferogram can be ignored. However, in this paper, we have generated an MAI interferogram from an ALOS P ALSAR interferometric pair spanning the 2010 Haiti earthquake, and shown that the topographic phase distortion on the MAI interferogram can reach to about $3.45{\times}10^{-4}$ rad./m. This distortion corresponds to an along-track surface deformation of about 98 cm. We have proposed an efficient method to remove the topographic phase distortion. After correcting the distortion, the topographic phase distortion on the MAI interferogram is reduced to about $7.82{\times}10^{-6}$ rad./m. This means that the proposed method can effectively remove the topographic distortion on the MAI interferogram to improve along-track surface deformation measurement.
Keywords
SAR; InSAR; MAI; ALOS PALSAR; topographic phase;
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