Abstract
Isolating the orbital error from the interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) observations is a great challenge, especially in the presence of tectonic deformation due to their similar spatial patterns. The influence of orbital error is systematic, which can reduce the reliability of deformation monitoring. In this letter, we propose a method to isolate the orbital error from the multitemporal InSAR (MTInSAR) derived tectonic deformation based on the wavelet multiresolution analysis and independent component analysis (ICA). Starting from the sequential interferometric phase of unwrapping, the tectonic deformation and orbital error are firstly extracted from the interferometric phase by wavelet analysis based on their longwavelength spatial patterns, and ICA is then used to isolate the orbital error from the tectonic deformation according to the different temporal characteristics of the two types of signals. In the simulation experiment, the root-mean-square error (RMSE) of the isolated orbital error is 2.6 mm. Experiments with real data in Southern California show that the proposed method can successfully separate the orbital error from the tectonic deformation, and the InSAR deformation rates are in good agreement with the GPS observations.
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