Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) exploits the phase difference between two complex radar signals for extracting information about the earth surface. Some significant application fields concerned by InSAR techniques are Digital ElevationModel (DEM) generation (Graham, 1974), geophysical hazard analysis (Massonet & Feigl, 1998), desertification (Bodart et al., 2009), deforestation...

Wildfire is a major disturbance in the Arctic tundra and boreal forests, having a significant impact on soil hydrology, carbon cycling, and permafrost dynamics. This study explores the use of the microwave Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) technique to map and quantify ground surface subsidence caused by the Anaktuvuk River fire on the North Slope of Alaska. We detected an increa...

I. MOTIVATION Large-scale thawing of arctic permafrost has a poorlyunderstood feedback effect on global climate through the release of CO2 and methane. Active Layer Thickness (ALT) is the maximum annual depth of thaw of surface soils and is designated by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) as an essential climate variable for monitoring the status of permafrost. Interferometric Syntheti...

* This work is supported by NSFC under grant No. 41001282. Abstract A fast multi-baseline Interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) phase ambiguity resolving method is presented. The ambiguity solution vector of the shortest baseline is first computed and used as a reference, and then the ambiguity solutions of all the other baselines are selected with logical judgment of phase differenc...

As confirmed by many scientists, atmosphere has intensive contaminative role on Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) measurements. Atmospheric parameters, always influence radar’s phase but the intensity of the atmospheric errors on interferograms depend on the difference of the parameters’ values. In this paper, some calibration methods will be considered in order to reduce the err...

In this paper, an original approach for analyzing Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) time series is presented and applied to the monitoring of creep along a major active fault. InSAR data are computed from satellite acquisitions and allow ground deformations occurring between different dates to be measured with high precision over large areas. However, measurement precision remain...

Since the Magellan radar mapping of Venus in the early 1990’s, techniques of synthetic aperture radar interferometry (InSAR) have become the standard approach to mapping topography and topographic change on Earth. Here we investigate a hypothetical radar mission to Venus that exploits these new methods. We focus on a single spacecraft repeat-pass InSAR mission and investigate the radar and miss...

The Altyn Tagh Fault (ATF) is one of the major left-lateral strike-slip faults in the northeastern area of the Tibetan Plateau. In this study, the interseismic deformation across the ATF at 85 ̋E was measured using 216 interferograms from 33 ENVISAT advanced synthetic aperture radar images on a descending track acquired from 2003 to 2010, and 66 interferograms from 15 advanced synthetic aperture...