Multibaseline InSAR Layover Detection Based on Local Frequency and Eigenvalue

Abstract

Layover detection has long been the focus of attention for interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) data processing. As for the existing layover detection methods, most of them are applied to single-baseline scenarios. Since multibaseline InSAR provides more image samples, the performance of layover detection can be further improved. In this article, a joint detection method of layover is proposed on the basis of local frequency and eigenvalue of multibaseline InSAR. To obtain a precise local frequency, maximum likelihood estimation is performed for flattened interferometric phase fusion and removing the reference terrain phase is chosen to ensure the proportionality of flattened phase to the baseline length. Adaptive image selection based on coherence is proposed to obtain a distinct eigenvalue. Then, the joint detection method is elaborated on. Based on the results of local frequency estimation and eigenvalue decomposition, precise thresholds are set for joint detection, and joint judgment is made by combining the layover detected by local frequency, the layover detected by eigenvalue, and the thresholds. Finally, the proposed method is validated through comparative experiments on simulated data and real data. Both theoretical analysis and experimental results show the feasibility and superiority of the proposed method.

Keywords

• Eigenvalue
• InSAR
• layover detection
• local frequency
• multibaseline