Mathematical framework for phase-triangulation algorithms in distributed-scatterer interferometry

N Cao, H Lee, HC Jung - IEEE Geoscience and Remote …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, 2015ieeexplore.ieee.org
To improve the spatial density of measurement points of persistent-scatterer interferometry,
distributed scatterer (DS) should be considered and processed. An important procedure in
DS interferometry is the phase triangulation (PT). This letter introduces two modified PT
algorithms (ie, equal-weighted PT and coherence-weighted PT) and analyzes the
mathematical relations between different published PT methods (ie, the maximum-likelihood
phase estimator, least squares estimator, and eigendecomposition-based phase …
To improve the spatial density of measurement points of persistent-scatterer interferometry, distributed scatterer (DS) should be considered and processed. An important procedure in DS interferometry is the phase triangulation (PT). This letter introduces two modified PT algorithms (i.e., equal-weighted PT and coherence-weighted PT) and analyzes the mathematical relations between different published PT methods (i.e., the maximum-likelihood phase estimator, least squares estimator, and eigendecomposition-based phase estimators). The analysis shows that the above five PT methods share very similar mathematical forms with different weight values in the estimation procedure.
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