Simulation of TanDEM-X interferograms for urban change detection

Amelie Welte; Horst Hammer; Antje Thiele; Stefan Hinz

doi:10.1117/12.2278408

5 October 2017 Simulation of TanDEM-X interferograms for urban change detection

Amelie Welte, Horst Hammer, Antje Thiele, Stefan Hinz

Proceedings Volume 10428, Earth Resources and Environmental Remote Sensing/GIS Applications VIII; 1042804 (2017) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2278408
Event: SPIE Remote Sensing, 2017, Warsaw, Poland

Abstract

Damage detection after natural disasters is one of the remote sensing tasks in which Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) sensors play an important role. Since SAR is an active sensor, it can record images at all times of day and in all weather conditions, making it ideally suited for this task. While with the newer generation of SAR satellites such as TerraSAR-X or COSMOSkyMed amplitude change detection has become possible even for urban areas, interferometric phase change detection has not been published widely. This is mainly because of the long revisit times of common SAR sensors leading to temporal decorrelation. This situation has changed dramatically with the advent of the TanDEM-X constellation, which can create single-pass interferograms from space at very high resolutions, avoiding temporal decorrelation almost completely. In this paper the basic structures that are present for any building in InSAR phases, i.e. layover, shadow, and roof areas, are examined. Approaches for their extraction from TanDEM-X interferograms are developed using simulated SAR interferograms. The extracted features of the building signature will in the future be used for urban change detection in real TanDEM-X High Resolution Spotlight interferograms.

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Amelie Welte, Horst Hammer, Antje Thiele, and Stefan Hinz "Simulation of TanDEM-X interferograms for urban change detection", Proc. SPIE 10428, Earth Resources and Environmental Remote Sensing/GIS Applications VIII, 1042804 (5 October 2017); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2278408

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