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The proposed method performs interferometric phase modeling. The method recovers the signal after the interferometric filtering for the pixels that loss of information is observed. The selection of these pixels is based on the decrease of their coherence value after the filtering. Signal recovery is associated to the preservation of the initial values for these pixels. Consequently, the method prevents the decrease of the coherence values for these pixels. Performance of the method depends on the performance of the used filter; however, it always improves the interferometric results. Since the phase signal is the basis for the DEM production, its preservation improves all the steps of the interferometric procedure, especially the phase unwapping. Effects of the method on the final interferometric product, the DEM, are also evident. The proposed method was evaluated using real interferometric data. Experiments showed that the applied filters within this study, did not always improve the accuracy of the produced DEM. Sub-images for which filtering does not improve their mean coherence value have been selected and the proposed method has been applied. For these sub-images, coherence values and RMS errors of the produced DEMs showed that the method improves the results of the interferometric procedure. It compensates the negative effects of the filtering for these sub-images and leads to the improvement of the DEM accuracy in the majority of the cases. |
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Interferometry
Digital filtering
Phase interferometry
Boxcar filters
Electronic filtering
Image filtering
Signal to noise ratio
