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Subsidences estimation from ground based SAR: techniques and experimental results
Subsidences estimation from ground based SAR: techniques and experimental results
Advanced Remote Sensing Systemsa POLIMI spin-off
Davide D’Aria
A. Monti Guarnieri, F. Rocca
Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione Politecnico di Milano
G. Bernardini*, P. Ricci
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Abstract
From spaceborne C-band to ground-based ku-band
Processing
Target correlation properties
Atmospheric Phase Screen statistics
Accuracy in the estimation of subsidences
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ERS-ENVISAT vs IBIS-L
24 hoursFixed local timeAcquisition
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Cross - Range direction
Clutter decorrelates (within acquistion time)
☺ but no volume decorrelation, and
☺ finer range resolution (50 cm)
Ph. unwrapping is critical (1 cycle = 9 mm)
☺ but sampling step is short (5’-20’)
☺ and shorter 2-way path (lower APS)
Large range spread (1 m – 4 km)
Significant occurrence of shadowing
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Focusing
Range Focusing(range IFFT)
Range Focusing(range IFFT)
RM correctionRM correction
Range IFFT Range IFFT
Range windowingRange windowing
Range data selectionRange data selection
Azimuth CZTAzimuth CZT
Range FFTRange FFT
Parabolic phase correction
Parabolic phase correction
Azimuth windowingAzimuth windowing
RADAR acquires in frequency steps (SFCW modulation)
Polar Format is quite suitable to accommodate for the large range spread.
Range migration compensation in (kx,ω) domain
Simple & efficient (2D FFT)
Geocoding is applied to the output of the interferometricprocessing
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Test site(s)
Three test sites with landslide in mountain & hilly areas have been analyzed, one (Tessina) is reported here.
Tessina (Chies D’Alpago, Belluno IT) is affected by a fast moving landslide (> 10 cm/day).
218 acquisitions (5’) for < 1 day:
23-Jun-06 16.40 to 24-Jun-06 14.27
Vegetated areas + exposed rocks
Mountain slopes oriented S-SE
Some rain during night
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Short time coherence
Amplitude Coherence Amplitude Coherence
Short time coherence is highly non-stationary. Vegetated targets that decorrelate in the synthetic aperture time (5’) are defocused.
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Correlation matrix: vegetation
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Strong correlation during nightime (not rainy).
Loose and short correlation daytime
Similar behaviour verified in Test site 2 for praieries.
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Correlation matrix: Stable targets
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Exposed rocks are always coherent, rain and night/day variation exists (clutter).
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Correlation matrix: decorrelating target
The decorrelation decay is exponential, the span of the inverse matrix is (span = ±2 images = 10’)
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It is due to a velocity gradient in the estimation patch (150 x 150 m).Processing of smaller patches is recommended for such cases
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Optimal subsidence estimateA two step approach was proposed in [1], whatever the target decorrelation. It is optimal in Bayesian sense (consistent with the hybrid Cramer Rao bound),It allows the exploitation of a standard PS processor.
Ist stepEstimate the N linked phases form N images, by jointly exploiting all the N×(N-1)/2 interferograms, given the scene covariance matrix
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ML estimate(linking of Nx(N-1)
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Unwrapping& APS
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Same approach of a standard PS processor
Additional APS compensation step
DEM is not needed for 0 baseline
Same approach of a standard PS processor
Additional APS compensation step
DEM is not needed for 0 baseline
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APS statisticsThe separation of motion and APS is strongly dependent of the 3D space-time
correlation of the APS itself. Here we assume to monitor “slow” subsidences.
The APS statistics can be derived by the finite differences, in the 5’ step, of the data phases. In Tessina dataset we assume APS monodimensional (Δψ = 20°).
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APS noise varies up to ±1.5 mm, due to temperature excursions
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D-APS statistics
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Std up to 1 mm, daytime, 400-1500 m
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Residual contributions are due to:
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Residual contributions are due to:
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- uncompensated APS
- clutter noise
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Test-site #2range 3 km, mountain area, 3 days with strong rain.
Histogram of uncompensated differential delay std bottoms at ~ 200-300 μm.
This residual delay may be reduced to ~ 100 μm by removing motion and performing a further local (PS-like) APS compensation.
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Accuracy in subsidence rate estimate
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Average Best CaseSNR dB 16 25Thermal phase std rad 0.11 0.04SCR dB 0 ∞Clutter phase std 0.71 0.00Total Target Phase std rad 0.72 0.04Target coherence 0.77 0.9992APS comp std rad 0.2Atmo+target std 0.74 0.20Distance accuracy mm 1.04 0.29Number of images 216Acquistion time interval min 5Conversion factor smpls/ 288Total time span (days) 0.8Rate estimate error (std) mm/da 1.39 0.382
The predicted accuracy is consistent with the histogram of estimated velocities (γ>0.7)
The predicted accuracy is consistent with the histogram of estimated velocities (γ>0.7)
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Accuracy in subsidence rate estimate
LOS subsidence rates starting from 1-2 mm/day show spatial consistence.
Can be as well attributed to residual time-domain correlated APS.
Phase unwrapping allows for tracking without errors fast moving landslides.
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Conclusions
The IBIS-L GB SAR provides a valuable monitoring system with 4 km range and frequent revisit that complements spaceborne SARs.
A processing algorithm has been shown to extract motion parameters form coherent and decorrelating targets.
Investigations on the APS shows fluctuations up to ±1.5 mm, due to temperature variation daytime.
The residual phase noise, due to clutter and uncompensated APS is 0.2 mm (night) -1.5 (day) mm. A final accuracy of subsidence rate estimate is 0.4-1.3 mm/day based on 1 day observation.
However, it would be impossible to separate motion form the slow-varying APS.