An Efficient Topography Adaptive Filter for Insar Processing

An efficient implementation of the topography adaptive filter based on local frequency estimation is proposed, where chirpz transform is applied to enhance the accuracy of the frequency estimation. As a byproduct of this adaptive filter, the linear approximated phase model of the interferogram is employed to improve the coherence estimation. The impacts of the adaptive filter on global and local phase unwrapping algorithms are discussed. Finally, aiming at the negative effect that the adaptive filter can bring to local phase unwrapping algorithms, a fusion scheme that takes advantage of least square and several local phase unwrapping algorithms is presented.