Journal of Geo-information Science, Volume. 22, Issue 9, 1878(2020)

InSAR Tropospheric Delay Error Correction Algorithm based on Multi-Scale Correlation Analysis

Yonghong HE*, Pengwei JIN, and Min SHU
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  • School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Hunan University of Science and Engineering, Yongzhou 425199, China
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    Tropospheric delay error in synthetic aperture radar interferometry can affect DEM accuracy. This study adopts wavelet multi-scale correlation analysis to reduce the influence of tropospheric delay error on DEM estimation. This method is based on the wavelet multi-resolution analysis theory and the frequency characteristics of different components in differential interference phases. Firstly, the wavelet decomposition reconstruction RMS error rate is used to determine the decomposition layers. The terrain residual phase and noise phase are reduced to extract the frequency band where the troposphere delayed error phase is located. Secondly, we quantify the correlation between tropospheric delay error phase and DEM in radar coordinates and further down-weight the correlated coefficients. Lastly, the differential interferogram is reconstructed which reduces the influence of elevation-related tropospheric delay in InSAR. In this study, the ENVISAT ASAR data in Yima, Henan province are processed using the method proposed in this study. The differential interferogram with tropospheric delay error corrected are obtained to estimate elevation. The estimated tropospheric delay phase correlated with elevation is consistent with the topographic changes. Results show that the standard deviation of DEM error compared to Aster GDEM decreases from 30.7 m to 26.37 m, which indicates an increased accuracy of InSAR DEM.

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    Yonghong HE, Pengwei JIN, Min SHU. InSAR Tropospheric Delay Error Correction Algorithm based on Multi-Scale Correlation Analysis[J]. Journal of Geo-information Science, 2020, 22(9): 1878

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    Paper Information

    Received: Feb. 8, 2020

    Accepted: --

    Published Online: Apr. 23, 2021

    The Author Email: HE Yonghong (365022968@qq.com)

    DOI:10.12082/dqxxkx.2020.200061

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