The multichromatic analysis (MCA) can be applied to interferometric pairs of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images processed at range subbands and consists of exploring the phase trend of each pixel as a function of the different central carrier frequencies. The phase of stable scatterers linearly evolves with the subband central frequency, with a slope proportional to the absolute electromagnetic path difference that can be estimated and used for both phase unwrapping and height computation. MCA has been theoretically evaluated and tested on airborne wideband SAR data, appearing optimally suited for the new generation of satellite sensors, which operate with larger bandwidths than previously available instruments, generally limited to few tens of megahertzs. In this letter, we illustrate MCA application to satellite SAR data acquired in spotlight mode over the Uluru monolith in Australia. The topographic measurements derived through MCA on the monolith are compared with those provided by a high-resolution digital elevation model from optical stereo imagery. The theoretical parametric model describing the MCA performances according to the processing parameters is also validated.

Multichromatic Analysis of Satellite Wideband SAR Data

Bovenga F;Rana FM;Refice A;Veneziani N
2014

Abstract

The multichromatic analysis (MCA) can be applied to interferometric pairs of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images processed at range subbands and consists of exploring the phase trend of each pixel as a function of the different central carrier frequencies. The phase of stable scatterers linearly evolves with the subband central frequency, with a slope proportional to the absolute electromagnetic path difference that can be estimated and used for both phase unwrapping and height computation. MCA has been theoretically evaluated and tested on airborne wideband SAR data, appearing optimally suited for the new generation of satellite sensors, which operate with larger bandwidths than previously available instruments, generally limited to few tens of megahertzs. In this letter, we illustrate MCA application to satellite SAR data acquired in spotlight mode over the Uluru monolith in Australia. The topographic measurements derived through MCA on the monolith are compared with those provided by a high-resolution digital elevation model from optical stereo imagery. The theoretical parametric model describing the MCA performances according to the processing parameters is also validated.
2014
Istituto di Studi sui Sistemi Intelligenti per l'Automazione - ISSIA - Sede Bari
Bandwidth;Estimation;Optical imaging;Optical interferometry;Satellites;Standards;Synthetic aperture radar;Multichromatic analysis (MCA);SAR interferometry (InSAR);phase unwrapping (PU);spotlight SAR data;synthetic aperture radar (SAR)
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