4.7 Article

Hybrid Approach for Unbiased Coherence Estimation for Multitemporal InSAR

Journal

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING
Volume 52, Issue 5, Pages 2459-2473

Publisher

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2013.2261996

Keywords

Adaptive hypothesis test; bootstrap; coherence estimation; fringe rate estimation; interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR)

Funding

  1. Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region [PolyU 5155/07E]
  2. Faculty of Construction and Land Use of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University under the Sustainable Urbanization Research Fund

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The coherence of radar echoes is a fundamental observable in interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) measurements. It provides a quantitative measure of the scattering properties of imaged surfaces and therefore is widely applied to study the physical processes of the Earth. However, unfortunately, the estimated coherence values are often biased due to various reasons such as radar signal nonstationarity and the bias in the estimators used. In this paper, we focus on multitemporal InSAR coherence estimation and present a hybrid approach that mitigates effectively the errors in the estimation. The proposed approach is almost completely self-adaptive and workable for both Gaussian and non-Gaussian SAR scenes. Moreover, the bias of the sample coherence can be mitigated with even only several samples included for a given pixel. Therefore, it is a more pragmatic method for accurate coherence estimation and can be applied actually. Different data sets are used to test the proposed method and demonstrate its advantages.

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