| Title | Topography-correlated atmospheric signal mitigation for InSAR applications in the Tibetan plateau based on global atmospheric models |
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| Author | Wang, Y; Chang, L; Feng, W ; Samsonov, S; Zheng, W |
| Source | International Journal of Remote Sensing vol. 42, issue 11, 2021 p. 4364-4382, https://doi.org/10.1080/01431161.2021.1892856  Open Access |
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| Year | 2021 |
| Alt Series | Natural Resources Canada, Contribution Series 20200795 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis Ltd. |
| Document | serial |
| Lang. | English |
| Media | paper; on-line; digital |
| File format | pdf |
| Area | Tibet; China |
| Lat/Long WENS | 72.0000 100.0000 43.0000 26.0000 |
| Subjects | Science and Technology; deformation; topography |
| Illustrations | diagrams; location maps; tables; graphs |
| Program | Canada Centre for Remote Sensing People Support and Leadership |
| Released | 2021 03 09 |
| Abstract | Atmospheric heterogeneity mainly exposes itself as tropospheric-phase delay in Satellite Interferometric Synthetic Aperture radar (InSAR) observations, which smears or even overshadows the deformation
component of InSAR measurements. In this study, we estimated the performance of four Global Atmospheric Models (GAMs), i.e. European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) Reanalysis v5 (ERA5), ERA-Interim (ERA-I), Modern-Era Retrospective
analysis for Research and Applications v2 (MERRA2) and Generic Atmospheric Correction Online Service for InSAR (GACOS), for tropospheric-phase delay reduction in InSAR applications in the Tibetan plateau, of which ERA5 is the latest GAM released by
ECMWF. We demonstrated the effectiveness of Atmospheric Phase Screen (APS) correction using the four GAMs for more than 700 Sentinel-1 Terrain Observation by Progressive Scans interferograms covering two study areas in the southern (R1) and northwest
margins (R2) of the Tibetan plateau. Topography-correlated signals have been widely observed in these interferograms, which are most likely due to the APS effects. We calculated the Standard Deviations (SD) and Pearson’s Correlation Coefficients (r)
between InSAR Line of Sight measurements and topography before and after applying APS correction. The results show that the SDs of non-deformation areas from the GAMs decrease to approximately 4 mm from around 10 mm and 12 mm originally on average
for R1 and R2, respectively, and the r after the APS correction are reduced below 0.4 from around 0.8 for the selected interferometric pairs. In addition, as the newly released GAM, ERA5 has similar performance with GACOS products and outperforms
other models generally. This suggests that GAMs, particularly ERA5, have great potential in the APS correction for InSAR applications in the Tibetan plateau. |
| Summary | (Plain Language Summary, not published)
In this study, we estimated the performance of four Global Atmospheric corrections for tropospheric-phase delay reduction in satellite Interferometric
Synthetic Aperture radar (InSAR) applications in the Tibetan plateau. Atmospheric heterogeneity mainly exposes itself as tropospheric phase delay in InSAR observations, which smears or even overshadows the deformation component of InSAR
measurements. |
| GEOSCAN ID | 328189 |
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