Title
Polarimetric Differential SAR Interferometry: First Results With Ground-Based Measurements
Abstract
The Remote Sensing Laboratory of the Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya carried out a one-year measuring campaign in the village of Sallent, northeastern Spain, using a polarimetric ground-based synthetic aperture radar (SAR) sensor. The objective was to study the subsidence phenomenon induced by the salt mining activity conducted in this area up to the middle of the last century. Zero-Baseline polarimetric SAR (PolSAR) data were gathered at X-band in nine different days, from June 2006 to March 2007. In this letter, the problem of extracting subsidence information from fully PolSAR acquisitions for the retrieval of high-quality deformation maps is addressed. After compensating for the atmospheric artifacts caused by troposphere changes, the linear component of the deformation process is estimated separately for each polarization channel with the Coherent Pixels Technique (CPT). Afterward, a novel polarimetric approach mixing the differential-phase information of each polarization channel is proposed. The results obtained in the two cases are quantitatively compared, and the advantages provided by the polarimetric acquisitions are finally stressed.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1109/LGRS.2008.2009007
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, IEEE
Keywords
Field
DocType
geomorphology,geophysical signal processing,radar interferometry,radar polarimetry,remote sensing by radar,synthetic aperture radar,topography (Earth),AD 2006 06 to 2007 03,PolSAR,Remote Sensing Laboratory,Sallent,Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya,coherent pixels technique,ground-based synthetic aperture radar sensor,high-quality deformation maps,northeastern Spain,polarimetric differential SAR interferometry,subsidence information,troposphere changes,zero-baseline polarimetric SAR,Ground-based synthetic aperture radar (GBSAR) sensor,SAR differential interferometry (DInSAR),SAR polarimetry
Polarimetry,Synthetic aperture radar,Remote sensing,Polarization (waves),Troposphere,Communication channel,Interferometry,Subsidence,Pixel,Geodesy,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
6
1
1545-598X
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
22
1.60
5
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Luca Pipia1437.95
Xavier Fàbregas227331.72
Albert Aguasca324438.92
C. Lopez-Martinez41207.94