Paper Info
Title
An Improved R-Index Model For Terrain Visibility Analysis For Landslide Monitoring With Insar
Abstract
The interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) technique is widely adopted for detecting and monitoring landslides, but its effectiveness is often degraded in mountainous terrains, due to geometric distortions in the synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image input. To evaluate the terrain effect on the applicability of InSAR in landslide monitoring, a variety of visibility evaluation models have been developed, among which the R-index models are quite popular. In consideration of the poor performance of the existing R-index models in the passive layover region, this study presents an improved R-index model, in which a coefficient for improving the visibility evaluation in the far passive layover regions is incorporated. To demonstrate the applicability of the improved R-index model, the terrain visibility of SAR images in Fengjie, a county in the Three Gorges Reservoirs region, China, is studied. The effectiveness of the improved R-index model is demonstrated through comparing the visibility evaluation results with those obtained from the existing R-index models and P-NG method. Further, the effects of the line-of-sight (LOS) parameters of SAR images and the resolution of the digital elevation model (DEM) on the terrain visibility are discussed.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.3390/rs13101938
REMOTE SENSING
Keywords
DocType
Volume
InSAR, improved R-index model, terrain visibility, landslide monitoring
Journal
13
Issue
Citations 
PageRank 
10
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Tianhe Ren100.68
Wenping Gong203.04
Victor Mwango Bowa300.34
Huiming Tang45713.06
Jun Chen592.80
Fumeng Zhao600.68