Abstract
Gaofen-3 is a Chinese remote sensing satellite with multiple working modes, among which the scanning synthetic aperture radar (ScanSAR) mode is used for wide-swath imaging. synthetic aperture radar (SAR) interferometry in the ScanSAR mode provides the most rapid way to obtain a global digital elevation model (DEM), which can also be realized by Gaofen-3. Gaofen-3 ScanSAR interferometry works in the repeat-pass mode, and image pair non-synchronizations can influence its performance. Non-synchronizations can include differences of burst central times, satellite velocities, and burst durations. Therefore, it is necessary to analyze their influences and improve the interferometric coherence. Meanwhile, interferometric phase compensation and rapid DEM geolocation also need to be considered in interferometric processing. In this paper, interferometric coherence was analyzed in detail, followed by an iterative filtering method, which helped to improve the interferometric performance. Further, a phase compensation method for Gaofen-3 was proposed to compensate for the phase error caused by the unsynchronized azimuth time offset of image pair, and a closed-form solution of DEM geolocation with ground control point (GCP) information was derived. Application of our methods to a pair of Gaofen-3 interferometric images showed that these methods were able to process the images with good accuracy and efficiency. Notably, these analysis and processing methods can also be applied to other SAR satellites in the ScanSAR mode to obtain DEMs with high quality.
Highlights
Launched on 10 August 2016, Gaofen-3 is a Chinese high-resolution remote-sensing satellite with a C-band multi-polarization synthetic aperture radar (SAR) payload [1]. It has been widely used in ocean surveillance, land management, ship detection, disaster reduction, and so on [2,3,4,5,6,7,8]. It can be used with the SAR interferometry technique to extract a digital elevation model (DEM) of the
The above sections discussed the coherence of Gaofen-3 scanning synthetic aperture radar (ScanSAR) interferometry, and proposed several methods to solve unsynchronized problems
The above sections discussed the coherence of Gaofen-3 ScanSAR interferometry, and proposed to solve unsynchronized problems
Summary
Launched on 10 August 2016, Gaofen-3 is a Chinese high-resolution remote-sensing satellite with a C-band multi-polarization synthetic aperture radar (SAR) payload [1] Since it has been widely used in ocean surveillance, land management, ship detection, disaster reduction, and so on [2,3,4,5,6,7,8]. In Gaofen-3 ScanSAR interferometry, the images are unsynchronized and may have different pulse repetition frequencies (PRFs), velocities, and burst durations These differences, together with the burst central time difference, influence the interferometric coherence.
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