Multichannel InSAR DEM reconstruction through closed-form robust Chinese remainder theorem

Interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) multichannel system, based on the collection of more interferograms acquired in a multifrequency or in a multibaseline configuration, allows us to reconstruct highly sloped and discontinuous terrain height profiles. In this paper, we present a new method to solve the digital elevation model (DEM) reconstruction problem using the closed-form robust Chinese remainder theorem (CRT). This method uses the remainder differential process, which does not exist in the traditional CRT, to improve the robustness of the DEM reconstruction. The simulation results demonstrate that the performance of the proposed method is better than statistical methods such as maximum likelihood (ML) estimation techniques, when the number of independent interferograms does not large enough.