Wideband SAR systems such as TerraSAR-X allow estimation of the absolute interferometric phase without resorting to error prone phase unwrapping. This is achieved through the delta-k technique that exploits frequency diversity within the range bandwidth to simulate a SAR system with a much longer carrier wavelength. This benefits all interferometric applications including DEM generation and lan...

The Persistent Scatterer Interferometry Wide Area Product (PSI-WAP) based on ERS1 & ERS2 radar data has been used in the seismic active area of Atalanti Faulting Zone (Central Greece) to spatially and temporally study the ground deformation for the period 1992-2003. The observed LOS velocity field, with values ranging between -0.5 to -5.0 mm/yr, combined with small standard deviation velocity v...

This paper presents a hierarchical approach to network construction and time series estimation in persistent scatterer interferometry (PSI) for deformation analysis using the time series of high-resolution satellite SAR images. To balance between computational efficiency and solution accuracy, a dividing and conquering algorithm (i.e., two levels of PS networking and solution) is proposed for e...

Persistent scatterer interferometry (PSI) typically rejects layovers. Therefore, layover-affected urban areas may suffer from inadequate deformation sampling. SAR tomography, when used as an add-on to PSI, reveals additional deformation samples by resolving layovers. In this paper we quantify the relative gain in deformation sampling, while taking into account the quality of the additional (dou...

Since the Persistent Scatterer Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Interferometry (PSI) technology allows the detection of ground subsidence with millimeter accuracy, it is becoming one of the most powerful and economical means for health diagnosis of major transportation infrastructures. However, structures of different types may suffer from various levels of localized subsidence due to the differe...

The Persistent Scatterer Interferometry Wide Area Product (PSI-WAP) based on ERS1 & ERS2 radar data has been used in the seismic active area of Atalanti Faulting Zone (Central Greece) to spatially and temporally study the ground deformation for the period 1992-2003. The observed LOS velocity field, with values ranging between -0.5 to -5.0 mm/yr, combined with small standard deviation velocity v...

We investigated the post-seismic surface displacement of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake around the Kanto Plain (including the capital area of Japan), which is located approximately 400 km from the epicenter, using a global positioning system network during 2005–2015 and persistent scatterer interferometry of TerraSAR-X data from March 2011 to November 2012. Uniform uplift owing to viscoelastic rela...