In radar images, point scatterers provide reflections that can often be attributed to a single physical object, usually smaller than the resolution cell size. Stable point scatterers with high backscatter coefficients through time (mainly ’man-made features’) are potential targets for InSAR deformation analysis. A-priori knowledge about the observation statistics of InSAR point scatterer measur...

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) Persistent Scatterer Interferometry (PS-InSAR) is an extension of the Differential Interferometry (D-InSAR). Using a large data stack consisting of a time-series of SAR images of the same area, stable reflectors which persist over a long period of time, the so-called Persistent Scatterers (PS), are determined and the phase shifts of these PS over time are measured...

The automatic 3-D reconstruction of buildings for the generation of city models is of great interest for different tasks. Besides the classical photogrammetric approaches to determine object heights indirectly, range sensors like laser (LIDAR) and interferometric SAR (InSAR) play an important role since recent years. From both sensors images are produced with a ground resolution better than a m...

InSAR data acquired from independent overlapping tracks can be exploited for a reliability assessment of the Persistent Scatterer InSAR (PS-InSAR) technique. Here we present a mathematical framework for the datum connection of multiple tracks, simultaneously evaluating the precision and reliability of PS-InSAR estimates. This datum connection can be subdivided in two steps. Firstly, the PS loca...

a r t i c l e i n f o Keywords: InSAR StaMPS SBAS Land subsidence Ground fissure Fault Geohazards Xi'an Xi'an, China has been undergoing significant land subsidence along with ground fissure development. These geohazards have brought about severe damages to buildings, bridges and other facilities. In order to warn of and mitigate disasters, it is urgently necessary to obtain the latest rate, ex...

Digital elevation models (DEMs) can be generate by interferometric SAR (InSAR) and radargrammetry techniques from different positions of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images. Radar imaging systems record both the phase (or time) and intensity information of the backscattered signals. InSAR utilises the phase information of the images to extract useful geodetic information, such as the height o...

This paper presents a comparative assessment of Synthetic Aperture Radar interferometric techniques (InSAR) that allow the detection of deformation models along the line-of-sight of the radar. Given the susceptibility of these methods to several limitations that act as noise effects in the interferograms, known as decorrelation phenomena, multi-temporal InSAR techniques have been used for the e...

Interferometric synthetic aperture radar (INSAR) has been used to map terrain topography; however, accuracy is limited because observations are not measurements of true surface topography over vegetated areas. Instead, the measurements, which depend on the sensor and the vegetation, represent some height above the true surface. We solve an inverse problem for INSAR scattering to determine surfa...