Wavenumber correlation analysis of radar interferogram

Author

Won, J.S. ; Kim, J.W. ; Min, K.D.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Earth Syst. Sci., Yonsei Univ., Seoul, South Korea

Volume

2

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

800

Abstract

The quality of a radar interferogram can be characterized by wavenumber correlation coefficient. The wavenumber correlation analysis exploits the unique characteristics of the radar interferogram in which in-phase and quadrature-phase terms are highly correlated. One can easily distinguish the signal components from the noise components of the radar interferogram in the wavenumber domain, and consequently this method can be utilized to design a post filter to enhance the interferogram. The wavenumber correlation analysis can also be applied to an amplitude coregistration of a master and slave pair. Test results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach

Keywords

geophysical techniques; radar theory; remote sensing by radar; synthetic aperture radar; terrain mapping; topography (Earth); SAR; amplitude coregistration; geophysical measurement technique; in-phase; land surface topography; master and slave pair; quadrature-phase term; radar interferogram; radar remote sensing; synthetic aperture radar; terrain mapping; wavenumber correlation analysis; wavenumber correlation coefficient; Coherence; Filters; Geoscience; Master-slave; Monitoring; Radar imaging; Radar interferometry; Signal design; Spaceborne radar; Testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2000. Proceedings. IGARSS 2000. IEEE 2000 International

Conference_Location

Honolulu, HI

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6359-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2000.861708

Filename

861708