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Article Dans Une Revue Geophysical Journal International Année : 2020

CorPhU: an algorithm based on phase closure for the correction of unwrapping errors in SAR interferometry

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Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar is commonly used in Earth Sciences to study surface displacements or construct high resolution topographic maps. Recent satellites such as those of the Sentinel-1 constellation allow to derive dense deformation maps with millimetric precision with high revisit frequency. However, InSAR is still limited by interferometric coherence. Interferometric phase noise resulting from a loss of coherence, due to changes in scattering properties between repeated SAR acquisitions, may lead to unwrapping errors, which then in turn lead to centimetric errors in time series reconstruction. We present an algorithm based on interferometric phase closure to automatically correct unwrapping errors. We describe the algorithm and highlight its performances with two case studies, in Lebanon with Envisat satellite data and in Central Turkey with Sentinel-1 data. The first dataset is particularly affected by unwrapping errors because of long spatial (500 m) and temporal baseline interferograms (6 years) and decorrelation due, in particular, to vegetation. The second dataset contains unwrapping errors because of temporal changes in the scattering properties of the ground. For these two examples, the algorithm allows the correction of almost all detectable unwrapping errors, without requiring visual inspection or manual deletions. Our algorithm is efficient especially on large datasets, such as with Sentinel-1 constellation, where interferometric phase is redundant and improves eventually the reconstruction of time series.
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hal-02152196 , version 1 (11-06-2019)
hal-02152196 , version 2 (26-03-2020)

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Angélique Benoit, Béatrice Pinel-Puysségur, Romain Jolivet, Cécile Lasserre. CorPhU: an algorithm based on phase closure for the correction of unwrapping errors in SAR interferometry. Geophysical Journal International, 2020, 221 (3), pp.1959-1970. ⟨10.1093/gji/ggaa120⟩. ⟨hal-02152196v2⟩
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