Publications

The differential INSAR technique has the potential for monitoring centimeter-scale ground motion in an accurate and cost-effective manner. Probably the most important limiting factor in the application of INSAR is temporal change in the complex reflectivity of the ground surface during the period between radar acquisitions. This can be due to changes in such parameters as moisture content or vegetation. The stable artificial corner reflectors can be identified from long temporal series of interferometric SAR images even with large baselines, and therefore decrease the risk of image decorrelation. This paper will discuss the following questions: 1) how to obtain the true phase of a corner reflector in a SAR complex image; 2) how to co-register the corner reflector pixels when the coherence of its surrounding area is extremely low; 3) how to select the in- terpolation kernel to resample the SAR image; and, 4) how to compute the interferometric phase of two co-registered corner reflectors without flat earth term and corners' height contribution. In order to demonstrate the results, a practical example of landslide monitoring in the Three Gorges area in China is presented.

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Xia, Y.; Kaufmann, H.; Guo, X. F. (2004): Landslide Monitoring in the Three Gorges Area Using D-INSAR and Corner Reflectors. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, 70, 1167-1172.