New Mexico Tech
Earth and Environmental Science

ERTH 455 / GEOP 555 - Geodetic Methods

2. InSAR

This section focuses on InSAR, Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar, and introduces how it works and what to do with the signals.

Lectures

Lecture 11: InSAR Overview, RADAR, SAR
Lecture 12: SAR, Interferogram Making
Lecture 13: Topography Correction
Lecture 14: Phase Unwrapping
Lecture 15: Phase Unwrapping, Time series
Lecture 16: InSAR Time series: PS, SBAS

LABS

Lab 07: gmtSAR Intro
Lab 08: gmtSAR time series, getting SAR data
Lab 09: gmtSAR time series, SBAS

Homework

Homework 02: InSAR Summary

Reference Materials

Most of the materials I use comes from these references:

• gmtSAR documentation - look through appendices! gmtSAR itself
• Synthetic Aperture Radar Interferometry Rosen et al., 2000, Proc. IEEE.
• InSAR Geodesy Simons and Rosen, 2007, Treatise of Geophysics

Phase unwrapping:

• Satellite radar interferometry: Two-dimensional phase unwrapping Goldstein et al., 1988, Radio Science.
• Synthetic Aperture Radar Interferometry Rosen et al., 2000, Proc. IEEE.
• Two-dimensional phase unwrapping with use of statistical models for cost functions in nonlinear optimization Chen and Zebker, 2001, J. Opt. Soc. Am.
• Phase unwrapping in three dimensions with applications to InSAR time series Hooper and Zebker, 2007, J. Opt. Soc. Am.