Affiliation:
1. University of Carthage, Tunisia
Abstract
This chapter presents a new phase unwrapping algorithm for the 3D Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (3D InSAR) volumes. The proposed approach is based on the relationship between the gradient vectors of the observed wrapped phase and the true phase respectively, when the Itoh condition is satisfied. Since this relationship is violated by the residue pixels in the observed wrapped phase, a general problem formulation which takes into account the estimation error due to these residue values is proposed. This approach exploits the temporal inter correlation between the interferometric frames within a compressive sensing framework. The 3D discrete curvelet transform is used in order to ensure a suitable sparse representation of the phase volume. The performance of the proposed 3D phase unwrapping algorithm is tested on simulated and real SAR 3D datasets