A Comparative Study of DEM Reconstruction Using the Single-Baseline and Multibaseline InSAR Techniques

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Interferometric SAR (InSAR) is a practical technique to derive 3-D structure of the earth's surface. This article conducts a comparative study of digital elevation model (DEM) reconstruction using the single-baseline and multibaseline InSAR techniques. To improve the accuracy of the DEM generated from the single-baseline InSAR, we improve the weight definition approach according to the coherence magnitudes for the fusion of single-baseline InSAR DEMs. For multibaseline InSAR, we adopt a method based on the maximum-likelihood estimation (MLE) algorithm, which uses external DEM as a constraint. A TerraSAR-X dataset comprising four SAR images acquired over Barcelona is used for experimental investigation. The accuracies of four types of DEM are comparatively studied, including DEM by single-baseline InSAR, DEM by the fusion of single-baseline InSAR DEMs, DEM by unconstrained multibaseline InSAR, and DEM by constrained multibaseline InSAR. The results show that the proposed weighted fusion of single-baseline InSAR performed slightly better than the constrained multibaseline InSAR method, and both of them performed better than the single-baseline results, demonstrating that multiple observations can effectively improve the accuracy of the reconstructed DEM.

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Liu, S., Tang, H., Feng, Y., Chen, Y., Lei, Z., Wang, J., & Tong, X. (2021). A Comparative Study of DEM Reconstruction Using the Single-Baseline and Multibaseline InSAR Techniques. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 14, 8512–8521. https://doi.org/10.1109/JSTARS.2021.3105231

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