Abstract
For airborne interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) data processing, it is essential to achieve precise motion compensation to obtain high-quality digital elevation models (DEMs). In this paper, a novel InSAR motion compensation method is developed, which combines the backprojection (BP) focusing and the multisquint (MSQ) technique. The algorithm is two-fold. For SAR image focusing, BP algorithm is applied to fully use the navigation information. Additionally, an explicit mathematical expression of residual motion error (RME) in the BP image is derived, which paves a way to integrating the MSQ algorithm in the azimuth spatial wavenumber domain for a refined RME correction. It is revealed that the proposed backprojection multisquint (BP-MSQ) algorithm exploits the motion error correction advantages of BP and MSQ simultaneously, which leads to significant improvements of InSAR image quality. Simulation and real data experiments are employed to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.
Highlights
Interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) is a bistatic radar system for remote sensing observation and digital elevation models (DEMs) acquisition
Multisquint technique originated from spectral segmentation technology, which has been successfully used in residual motion error (RME) estimation for interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR)
To verify the accuracy and feasibility of the method described in this paper, several sets of simulation data are used to analyze the above theory, and the residual motion error estimation are performed base on the linear RME and high-order RME, respectively
Summary
Interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) is a bistatic radar system for remote sensing observation and digital elevation models (DEMs) acquisition. Conventional MSQ is a useful assistance tool with a high processing speed and precision, which usually combines with the frequency domain focusing process for InSAR RME estimation. In contrast to the process of the subaperture differential interferometric phase integration in [2], the proposed BP-MSQ algorithm estimates polynomial parameters of RME by using the subaperture differential phase, while it analyzes the representation of RME in the azimuth time domain. In this manner, both high- and low-frequency error components of RME can be obtained precisely.
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