InSAR Phase Unwrapping: A Bayesian Approach
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چکیده
The paper proposes a Bayesian approach to absolute phase (not simply modulo-2π) estimation in interferometric aperture radar (InSAR). The observation density is 2π-periodic and accounts for the interferometric pair decorrelation and the system noise; the a priori probability of the absolute phase is modeled by a compound Gauss Markov random field (CGMRF). To compute the absolute phase estimate we propose an iterative scheme aiming at the computation of the maximum a posteriori probability (MAP) estimate. Each iteration embodies a discrete optimization step (Z-step), implemented by network programming techniques, and an iterative conditional modes (ICM) step (π-step). According to the terms Z-step and π-step, we term our algorithm ZπM, where the letter M stands for maximization. Experimental results, comparing the proposed algorithm with classical approaches, illustrates the effectiveness of the ZπM algorithm.
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