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http://dx.doi.org/10.7780/kjrs.2015.31.2.5

Enhancement of Ionospheric Correction Method Based on Multiple Aperture Interferometry  

Lee, Won-Jin (Department of Geoinformatics, The University of Seoul)
Jung, Hyung-Sup (Department of Geoinformatics, The University of Seoul)
Chae, Sung-Ho (Department of Geoinformatics, The University of Seoul)
Baek, Wonkyung (Department of Geoinformatics, The University of Seoul)
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Korean Journal of Remote Sensing / v.31, no.2, 2015 , pp. 101-110 More about this Journal
Abstract
Synthetic Aperture Radar Interferometry (InSAR) is affected by various noise source such as atmospheric artifact, orbital error, processing noise etc.. Especially, one of the dominant noise source for long-wave SAR system, such as ALOS PALSAR (L-band SAR satellite) is the ionosphere effect because phase delays on radar pulse through the ionosphere are proportional to the radar wavelength. To avoid misinterpret of phase signal in the interferogram, it is necessary to detect and correct ionospheric errors. Recently, a MAI (Multipler Aperture SAR Interferometry) based ionospheric correction method has been proposed and considered one of the effective method to reduce phase errors by ionospheric effect. In this paper, we introduce the MAI-based method for ionospheric correction. Moreover we propose an efficient method that apply the method over non-coherent area using directional filter. Finally, we apply the proposed method to the ALOS PALSAR pairs, which include the west sea coast region in Korea. A polynomial fitting method, which is frequently adopted in InSAR processing, has been applied for the mitigation of phase distortion by the orbital error. However, the interferogram still has low frequency of Sin pattern along the azimuth direction. In contrast, after we applied the proposed method for ionospheric correction, the low frequency pattern is mitigated and the profile results has stable phase variation values within ${\pm}1rad$. Our results show that this method provides a promising way to correct orbital and ionospheric artifact and would be important technique to improve the accuracy and the availability for L-band or P-band systems.
Keywords
SAR Interferometry; Ionospheric Correction; Directional Filter;
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