Journal of Applied Sciences ›› 2014, Vol. 32 ›› Issue (4): 409-415.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.0255-8297.2014.04.011

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Optimization Estimation for Spaceborne InSAR Baseline Using Quadratic Polynomial

ZHANG Guo1,2, ZHENG Yu-zhi1   

  1. 1. State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing,
    Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China
    2. Satellite Surveying and Mapping Application Center, National Administration of Surveying,
    Mapping and Geoinformation, Beijing 101300, China
  • Received:2014-03-14 Revised:2014-04-01 Online:2014-07-31 Published:2014-04-01

Abstract:  Baseline is an important parameter in synthetic aperture radar interferometry (InSAR). Tiny errors in length and inclination of the baseline can cause a great error of the interferometric phase, and eventually affect accuracy of the spatial information. This paper proposes a method to optimize estimation of baseline by using quadratic multi-polynomial aimed at unwrapped phase to eliminate the interferometric phase influence caused by the baseline error. TerraSAR-X, COSMO-SkyMed, RadarSat-2 and ASAR images are used to verify effectiveness of the proposed method.

Key words: synthetic aperture radar, baseline, optimization, polynomial fitting, satellite orbit

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