Sentinel-1 Interferometric Concepts?

A new tutorial on displacement mapping with S1 data was published one week ago. The only difference is that you don’t apply topographic phase removal: http://step.esa.int/docs/tutorials/S1TBX%20TOPSAR%20Interferometry%20with%20Sentinel-1%20Tutorial_v2.pdf

A separate tutorial on DEM generation with S1 is planned. But please be aware that you need several conditions for a good DEM

  • the perpendicular baseline is ideally above 150 meters
  • two images at short intervals
  • no rain during the acquisitions, at best images from the dry season
  • no vegetation cover

Sentinel-1 is mainly designed for differential interferometry and not for DEM generation. Most of the approaches fail because the requirements above are not given and the phase is decorrelated.

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