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Investigation of ionospheric effects on SAR Interferometry (InSAR): A case study of Hong Kong / Wu Zhu in Advances in space research, vol 58 n° 4 (August 2016)  

Public [article]  inAdvances in space research > vol 58 n° 4 (August 2016) . - pp 564 - 576 Titre : Investigation of ionospheric effects on SAR Interferometry (InSAR): A case study of Hong Kong Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Wu Zhu, Auteur ; Xiao-Li Ding, Auteur ; Hyung-Sup Jung, Auteur ; et al., Auteur Année de publication : 2016 Article en page(s) : pp 564 - 576 Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Traitement d'image radar et applications [Termes IGN] bande L [Termes IGN] coordonnées GPS [Termes IGN] Hong-Kong [Termes IGN] image ALOS-PALSAR [Termes IGN] interféromètrie par radar à antenne synthétique [Termes IGN] perturbation ionosphérique [Termes IGN] teneur totale en électrons Résumé : (auteur) Synthetic Aperture Radar Interferometry (InSAR) has demonstrated its potential for high-density spatial mapping of ground displacement associated with earthquakes, volcanoes, and other geologic processes. However, this technique may be affected by the ionosphere, which can result in the distortions of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images, phases, and polarization. Moreover, ionospheric effect has become and is becoming further significant with the increasing interest in low-frequency SAR systems, limiting the further development of InSAR technique. Although some research has been carried out, thorough analysis of ionospheric influence on true SAR imagery is still limited. Based on this background, this study performs a thorough investigation of ionospheric effect on InSAR through processing L-band ALOS-1/PALSAR-1 images and dual-frequency Global Positioning System (GPS) data over Hong Kong, where the phenomenon of ionospheric irregularities often occurs. The result shows that the small-scale ionospheric irregularities can cause the azimuth pixel shifts and phase advance errors on interferograms. Meanwhile, it is found that these two effects result in the stripe-shaped features in InSAR images. The direction of the stripe-shaped effects keep approximately constant in space for our InSAR dataset. Moreover, the GPS-derived rate of total electron content change index (ROTI), an index to reflect the level of ionospheric disturbances, may be a useful indicator for predicting the ionospheric effect for SAR images. This finding can help us evaluate the quality of SAR images when considering the ionospheric effect. Numéro de notice : A2016-591 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : IMAGERIE/POSITIONNEMENT Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern DOI : 10.1016/j.asr.2016.05.004 En ligne : http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.asr.2016.05.004 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=81747 [article]