Time-series analysis of Sentinel-1 interferometric wide swath data: Techniques and challenges

Abstract

Sentinel-1 IWS interferometric time-series analysis (SBAS and PSI) is discussed and results over Mexico City, a mega-city subject to very substantial ground deformation, are presented. In the early steps the processing needs to be adapted to the organization of the data in sub-swaths and burst, and for the SLC co-registration an extremely accurate co-registration is required for interferometry, because of the strong along-track Doppler centroid variation. Furthermore, a deramping of the co-registered SLC for an along-track phase ramp present in each burst is applied. After that interferometric time-series techniques (SBAS, PSI) can be applied in the same way as for stripmap mode data.