Multichannel InSAR DEM Reconstruction Through Improved Closed-Form Robust Chinese Remainder Theorem

Abstract

Interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) multichannel system, which produces more than one interferogram in a multifrequency or multibaseline configuration, allows us to reconstruct highly sloped and discontinuous terrain height profiles. In this letter, a novel method based on a closed-form robust Chinese remainder theorem (CRT) is presented to solve the height reconstruction problem. Proper reference remainder selection and remainder differential process, which do not exist in the traditional CRT, are adopted to improve the robustness of the height reconstruction. We also modify the method by exploiting statistical characteristics of interferometric phase and the combined information of InSAR interferograms. Moreover, a special weighted mean filtering method is adopted to get a better result. Experimental results prove the effectiveness of the method.