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ISSN 2070-7401 (Print), ISSN 2411-0280 (Online)
Sovremennye problemy distantsionnogo zondirovaniya Zemli iz kosmosa
CURRENT PROBLEMS IN REMOTE SENSING OF THE EARTH FROM SPACE

  

Sovremennye problemy distantsionnogo zondirovaniya Zemli iz kosmosa, 2017, Vol. 14, No. 5, pp. 113-121

Measurement of Earth surface displacements by SAR interferometry using corner reflectors

I.I. Dobrynin 1 , F.V. Pesyak 1 , A.I. Savin 1 , N.N. Sevastiyanov 1 
1 JSC Gazprom Space Systems, Korolyov, Russia
Accepted: 29.08.2017
DOI: 10.21046/2070-7401-2017-14-5-113-121
The paper is dedicated to experimental study of Earth surface displacement measurements accuracy by satellite synthetic aperture radar (SAR) interferometry method using corner reflectors. The measurements were carried out at Gazprom Space Systems’ test site in 2015. The paper describes the experimental corner reflectors characteristics, their layout and orientation diagram as well as SAR acquisition parameters, SAR data processing procedure and approaches to eliminate the factors influencing the displacement measurements accuracy. In the course of the experiment, an interferometric series of 20 TerraSAR-X images was obtained. The SAR images were processed by ENVI SARscape and QGIS software. As a result, the corner reflectors displacements in the projection on the satellite corner reflector line were measured. The paper shows the graphs illustrating the dynamics of the corner reflectors motion during the experiment as well as conclusions on the atmospheric precipitation effect on the accuracy of displacement measurements. The analysis of the calculated measurement error of the corner reflectors displacements makes it possible to evaluate the applicability of space radar interferometry method in high-precision monitoring of the Earth surface displacements in corner reflectors installation points.
Keywords: synthetic aperture radar (SAR), radar interferometry, Earth remote sensing, differential interferometry, Earth surface subsidence monitoring, corner reflector
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