Title
Higher-order permanent scatterers analysis
Abstract
The permanent scatterers (PS) technique is a multi-interferogram algorithm for DInSAR analyses developed in the late nineties to overcome the difficulties related to the conventional approach, namely, phase decorrelation and atmospheric effects. The successful application of this technology to many geophysical studies is now pushing toward further improvements and optimizations. A possible strategy to increase the number of radar targets that can be exploited for surface deformation monitoring is the adoption of parametric super-resolution algorithms that can cope with multiple scattering centres within the same resolution cell. In fact, since a PS is usually modelled as a single pointwise scatterer dominating the background clutter, radar targets having cross-range dimension exceeding a few meters can be lost (at least in C-band datasets), due to geometrical decorrelation phenomena induced in the high normal baseline interferograms of the dataset. In this paper, the mathematical framework related to higher-order SAR interferometry is presented as well as preliminary results obtained on simulated and real data. It is shown how the PS density can be increased at the price of a higher computational load.
Year
DOI
Venue
2005
10.1155/ASP.2005.3231
EURASIP J. Adv. Sig. Proc.
Keywords
Field
DocType
higher order,synthetic aperture radar
Telecommunications,Decorrelation,Computer science,Synthetic aperture radar,Artificial intelligence,Pointwise,Radar,Computer vision,Clutter,Algorithm,Interferometry,Parametric statistics,Computational complexity theory
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
2005,
20
1110-8657
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
11
1.90
11
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Alessandro Ferretti1193.86
Marco Bianchi2111.90
Claudio Prati3952127.94
Fabio Rocca429722.15