Distributed Scatterer Interferometry Tailored to the Analysis of Big InSAR Data

Abstract:
Wide-swath satellite missions with short revisit times, such as Sentinel-1 and NISAR, provide an unprecedented wealth of interferometric time series and open new opportunities for systematic monitoring of the Earth surface. The processing of the emerging Big Data with the state-of-the-art InSAR time series analysis techniques is, however, computationally challenging. A new demand has emerged for the analysis of the fast growing data volumes specifically for systematic near real-time (NRT) monitoring of the Earth surface. We have addressed this demand by the proposal of two efficient alternative estimators for NRT processing of the emerging Big Data in [1, 2]. In this contribution, a hybrid approach based on the proposed estimators is introduced and applied in efficient wide area processing of two-year archive of Sentinel-1 data over eastern part of the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt.