Phase unwrapping for large SAR interferograms: Statistical segmentation and generalized network models

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 1709-1719

  Chen, Curtis W ^b,c   Zebker, Howard A ^a,d  

^a IEEE

^b Stanford University   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Network optimization; Statistical estimation; Synthetic aperture radar interferometry; Two dimensional phase unwrapping

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; INTERFEROMETRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY; PROBLEM SOLVING; STATISTICAL METHODS;

PHASE UNWRAPPING;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 0036699026     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2002.802453     Document Type: Article

References (21)

1. H. Zebker and R. Goldstein, "Topographic mapping from interferometric SAR observations," J. Geophys. Res., vol. 91, pp. 4993-4999, 1986.
2. A.K. Gabriel, R.M. Goldstein, and H.A. Zebker, "Mapping small elevation changes over large areas: Differential radar interferometry," J. Geophys. Res., vol. 94, pp. 9183-9191, 1989.
3. D.C. Ghiglia and M.D. Pritt, Two-Dimensional Phase Unwrapping: Theory, Algorithms and Software. New York: Wiley, 1998.
4. M. Costantini, "A novel phase unwrapping method based on network programming," IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sensing, vol. 36, pp. 813-821, May 1998.
5. C.W. Chen and H.A. Zebker, "Two-dimensional phase unwrapping with use of statistical models for cost functions in nonlinear optimization," J. Opt. Soc. Amer. A, vol. 18, pp. 338-351, 2001.
6. G. Carballo, "Statistically-based multiresolution network flow phase unwrapping for SAR interferometry," Ph.D. dissertation, Royal Inst. Technol., Stockholm, Sweden, 2000.
7. H.A. Zebker and J. Villasenor, "Decorrelation in interferometric radar echoes," IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sensing, vol. 30, pp. 950-959, Sept. 1992.
8. J.-S. Lee, K.W. Hoppel, S.A. Mango, and A.R. Miller, "Intensity and phase statistics of multilook polarimetric and interferometric SAR imagery," IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sensing, vol. 32, pp. 1017-1028, Sept. 1994.
9. R.M. Goldstein, H.A. Zebker, and C.L. Werner, "Satellite radar interferometry: Two-dimensional-dimensional phase unwrapping," Radio Sci., vol. 23, pp. 713-720, 1988.
10. C.W. Chen and H.A. Zebker, "Network approaches to two-dimensional phase unwrapping: Intractability and two new algorithms," J. Opt. Soc. Amer. A, vol. 17, pp. 401-414, 2000.
11. R.K. Ahuja, T.L. Magnanti, and J.B. Orlin, Network Flows: Theory, Algorithms and Applications. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1993.
12. p-norm two-dimensional phase unwrapping," J. Opt. Soc. Amer. A, vol. 13, pp. 1999-2013, 1996.
13. _, "Robust two-dimensional weighted and unweighted phase unwrapping that uses fast transforms and iterative methods," J. Opt. Soc. Amer. A, vol. 11, pp. 107-117, 1994.
14. M.R. Garey and D.S. Johnson, Computers and Intractability: A Guide to the Theory of NP-Completeness. San Francisco, CA: Freeman, 1979.
15. A. Baldi, "Two-dimensional phase unwrapping by quad-tree decomposition," Appl. Optics, vol. 40, pp. 1187-1194, 2001.
16. S. Hensley, private communication, 2001.
17. W. Xu and I. Cumming, "A region-growing algorithm for InSAR phase unwrapping," IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sensing, vol. 37, pp. 124-134, Jan. 1999.
18. G. Fornaro and E. Sansosti, "A two-dimensional region growing least squares phase unwrapping algorithm for interferometric SAR processing," IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sensing, vol. 37, pp. 2215-2226, Sept. 1999.
19. L. Guibas and J. Stolfi, "Primitives for the manipulation of general subdivisions and the computation of Voronoi diagrams," ACM Trans. Graphics, vol. 4, pp. 74-123, 1985.
20. S. Fortune, "A sweepline algorithm for Voronoi diagrams," Algorithmica, vol. 2, pp. 153-174, 1987.
21. H.A. Zebker, P.A. Rosen, and S. Hensley, "Atmospheric effects in interferometric synthetic aperture radar surface deformation and topography maps," J. Geophys. Res., vol. 102, pp. 7547-7563, 1997.