As a by-product of Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR, InSAR) technique, interferometric coherence is measure the decorrelation noise for InSAR observation, where lower value, more serious noise. In densely vegetated area, value could be too low to obtain any valuable signals, leading degradation performance and possible waste expensive SAR data. Normalized Difference Vegetation Inde...

Abstract. Snow is a critical water resource for the western United States and many regions across globe. However, our ability to accurately measure monitor changes in snow mass from satellite remote sensing, specifically its equivalent, remains challenge. To confront these challenges, NASA initiated SnowEx program, multiyear effort address knowledge gaps sensing. During 2020, Uninhabited Aerial...

[1] Digital elevation models (DEMs) of Bagley Ice Valley and Malaspina Glacier produced by (i) Intermap Technologies, Inc. (ITI) from airborne interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) data acquired 4–13 September 2000, (ii) the German Aerospace Center (DRL) from spaceborne InSAR data acquired by the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) 11–22 February 2000, and (iii) the US Geological...

Mount Merapi is one of the most active volcanoes in Indonesia, and its most recent massive eruption was in November 2010, causing great loss of lives and assets. Land movement of the volcano and the regions around were known to be significant. One of the methods that can be used to monitor such motion is Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR). The Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images...

The improved ground resolution of state-of-the-art synthetic aperture radar (SAR) sensors suggests utilizing this technique for analysis of urban areas. However, building reconstruction from SAR or InSAR data suffers from consequences of the inherent oblique scene illumination, such as foreshortening, layover, occlusion by radar shadow and multipath signal propagation. Especially in built-up ar...

Interferometric imaging radar altimeter (InIRA) is the first spaceborne Ku-band interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) which is specially designed for ocean surface topography altimetry. It is on the Tiangong II space laboratory, which was launched on 15 September 2016. Different from any other spaceborne synthetic aperture radar (SAR), InIRA chooses a near-nadir incidence of 1◦~8◦ in...