Abstract
Satellite radar interferometry (InSAR) enables large-scale monitoring of displacement with precision akin to ground-based methods. Using measurements from Sentinel-1 satellites, persistent scatterer networks cover areas up to hundreds of kilometers in size. One of the current challenges for the InSAR community is to tie these networks into a current and country-specific global terrestrial reference system through collocation with other geodetic techniques, especially Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS). In this work, an optimal procedure for assessing a suitable collocation properties for InSAR and GNSS techniques is discussed, along with the proposal for the methodology to determine the spatial relationship between the reference points of both techniques. The study analyzes three collocation stations in Slovakia using their radar backscattering characteristics. InSAR achieves an intrinsic accuracy of up to 1 mm but has uncertainties several orders of magnitude larger in 3D space. A collocation of InSAR measurements with GNSS can tie relative InSAR displacement estimates to an absolute reference frame.
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