A Modification to Time-Series Coregistration for Sentinel-1 TOPS Data

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Abstract

Very high requirement of co-registration accuracy better than 0.001 pixels for Sentinel-1 TOPS (Terrain Observation by Progressive Scan) mode presents a great challenge for application of SAR (synthetic aperture radar) interferometry in Earth Observation. The state-of-the-art techniques have demonstrated that the low coherence scenarios and abrupt loss of coherence between two arbitrary acquisitions are main sources of error to degrade the performance of TOPS time-series co-registration. In this paper, we present a modification to overcome both limitations through the coherence enhancement. The motive behind this is to improve the quality of observations before co-registration and meanwhile avoiding the coherence loss caused by fast decorrelation. To this end, principal components analysis based spatio-temporal filtering is first used to remove the artifacts in burst interferograms over strong noise areas. Rather than heuristically choosing a sub-set of interferograms as a small baseline technique does, we use Dijkstra's shortest path algorithm under graph theory framework to maximize the coherence of a sub-set interferograms. The performance of presented method against the state-of-the-art techniques is fully evaluated by synthetic data and a Sentinel-1A stack over a low coherence scene in Indonesia. Comprehensive comparisons demonstrate 9%-17% uncertainty reduction of time-series co-registration when applying our method.

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Tian, X., Ma, Z. F., & Jiang, M. (2020). A Modification to Time-Series Coregistration for Sentinel-1 TOPS Data. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 13, 1639–1648. https://doi.org/10.1109/JSTARS.2020.2985503

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