Abstract:This paper proposes an improved multi-baseline InSAR height reconstruction approach to reconstruct height models of discontinuous terrains through combining with the Maximum A Posteriori (MAP) estimation based on Total Variation (TV) model energy function and a defective pixel judgment method composed of interferogram residues and comparison of adjacent pixels differences. The proposed method utilizes the difference discontinuous pixels between interferogram residues and comparison of adjacent pixels differences, to make defective pixels judgment from reconstructed terrain graphs obtained by the MAP estimation based on TV model energy function, which estimates efficiently defective pixels caused by errors or noise from discontinuous pixels, and then updates relatively defective pixels to obtain the final terrain height estimation. The presented algorithm not only keeps the convenience of MAP estimation algorithm but also improves estimation precision for height models of objective terrains. Experiences of two different types of terrain show that the proposed approach is efficient as well as valid.
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