User-friendly InSAR products - do we need range-Doppler?

Conference: EUSAR 2018 - 12th European Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar
06/04/2018 - 06/07/2018 at Aachen, Germany

Proceedings: EUSAR 2018

Pages: 4Language: englishTyp: PDF

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Authors:
Zebker, Howard (Stanford University, USA)

Abstract:
InSAR time series analysis of deformation fields almost always starts with processed range-Doppler single look complex (SLC) radar images. These images are then co-registered and pairwise phase differences form the interferograms. Computing coregistered SLCs directly in a desired geometry saves significant data storage and readily produces data products that are easy to analyze in coordinate systems that are well matched to a desired application. Here we demonstrate InSAR data products created using a backprojection algorithm that skips the range-Doppler, coregistration, and elevation compensation steps, greatly simplifying analysis by the end user and opening up InSAR techniques to a wider group of applications.