Open AccessBASELINE ESTIMATION ALGORITHM WITH BLOCK ADJUSTMENT FOR MULTI-PASS DUAL-ANTENNA INSAR
Author(s) -
Jin Gao,
Xiang Xiong,
Qing Xu,
Gong Zhang,
Yang Zhang
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
the international archives of the photogrammetry, remote sensing and spatial information sciences/international archives of the photogrammetry, remote sensing and spatial information sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.264
H-Index - 71
eISSN - 1682-1777
pISSN - 1682-1750
DOI - 10.5194/isprsarchives-xli-b7-39-2016
Subject(s) - interferometric synthetic aperture radar , baseline (sea) , interferometry , remote sensing , synthetic aperture radar , offset (computer science) , computer science , geodesy , algorithm , antenna (radio) , geology , telecommunications , optics , physics , oceanography , programming language
Baseline parameters and interferometric phase offset need to be estimated accurately, for they are key parameters in processing of InSAR (Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar). If adopting baseline estimation algorithm with single pass, it needs large quantities of ground control points to estimate interferometric parameters for mosaicking multiple passes dual-antenna airborne InSAR data that covers large areas. What’s more, there will be great difference between heights derived from different passes due to the errors of estimated parameters. So, an estimation algorithm of interferometric parameters with block adjustment for multi-pass dual-antenna InSAR is presented to reduce the needed ground control points and height’s difference between different passes. The baseline estimation experiments were done with multi-pass InSAR data obtained by Chinese dual-antenna airborne InSAR system. Although there were less ground control points, the satisfied results were obtained, as validated the proposed baseline estimation algorithm.