A Feasible Approach for Improving Accuracy of Ground Deformation Measured by D-InSAR

摘要

D-InSAR is currently one of the most popular research tools in the field of Microwave Remote Sensing. It is unrivaled in its aspect of measuring ground deformation due to its advantages such as high resolution,continuous spa-tial-coverage and dynamics. However,there are still a few major problems to be solved urgently as a result of the intrin-sic complexity of this technique. One of the problems deals with improving the accuracy of measured ground deforma-tion. In this paper,various factors affecting the accuracy of ground deformation measured by D-InSAR are systemati-cally analyzed and investigated by means of the law of measurement error propagation. At the same time,we prove that the ground deformation error not only depends on the errors of perpendicular baselines as well as the errors of the inter-ferometric phase for topographic pair and differential pair,but also on the combination of the relationship of perpen-dicular baselines for topographic pairs and differential pairs. Furthermore,a feasible approach for improving the accu-racy of measured ground deformation is proposed,which is of positive significance in the practical application of D-InSAR.