Deformation measurements using SAR interferometry: potential and limitations |
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| Authors: | Klees Roland Massonnet Didier |
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| Institution: | (1) Delft Institute for Earth Oriented Space Research, Faculty of Civil Engineering & Geoscience, Delft University of Technology, Thijsseweg 11, 2629 JA Delft, the Netherlands;(2) DGAT/SH/QTIS, Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales, 18 Avenue E. Belin, 31407 Toulouse CEDEX 4, France |
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| Abstract: | Most applications of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) make only use of the amplitude information in just one image. Interferometric SAR (InSAR) makes use mainly of the phase measurements in two or more SAR images of the same scene, acquired at two different moments and/or at two slightly different locations. By interference of the two images, very small slant-range changes of the same surface can be inferred. These slant-range changes can be related to topography and/or surface deformations. InSAR thus has the potential of mapping centimeter-scale ground displacements over a region many tens of kilometers in size at a resolution of a few meters making it one of the most promising space-geodetic techniques for monitoring Earth's surface deformations. The goal of this paper is to discuss some of the potential new applications of InSAR for the monitoring of deformations, and to show its major limitations. Some potential new applications of InSAR related to surface-change detection including earthquake and crustal studies, the monitoring of volcanoes and anthropogenic effects, and the monitoring of glaciers and ice sheets are presented. The discussion on the limitations of InSAR for surface-change detection focuses on atmospheric perturbations and the problem of temporal decorrelation. |
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| Keywords: | anthropogenic processes crustaldynamics earthquake research glacier and icesheetmonitoring volcano monitoring |
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