Modeling PSInSAR time series without phase unwrapping

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 49, Issue 1 PART 2, 2011, Pages 547-556

  Zhang, Lei ^a   Ding, Xiaoli ^a   Lu, Zhong ^b  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b CASCADES VOLCANO OBSERVATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR); least squares; phase ambiguity; phase unwrapping; synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

CORRELATED OBSERVATIONS; DEFORMATION RATES; DIFFERENTIAL INTERFEROGRAMS; INTERFEROMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; LEAST SQUARE; MULTI-MASTER; MULTI-TEMPORAL; NO PHASE; PHASE AMBIGUITY; PHASE UNWRAPPING; PS-INSAR; PSEUDO-INVERSES; REFERENCE POINTS; SIMULATED DATA; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR INTERFEROMETRY; VARIANCE-COVARIANCE MATRIX; WEIGHT MATRICES;

DEFORMATION; GEODETIC SATELLITES; IMAGING SYSTEMS; RADAR; SIGNAL NOISE MEASUREMENT; SYNTHETIC APERTURES; TIME SERIES;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; INTERFEROMETRY; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; MATRIX; NUMERICAL MODEL; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TIME SERIES; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 78650902311     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2010.2052625     Document Type: Article

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