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Time-Series Clustering Methodology for Estimating Atmospheric Phase Screen in Ground-Based InSAR Data. / Izumi, Yuta; Nico, Giovanni; Sato, Motoyuki.

In: IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol. 60, 01.01.2022.

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Izumi, Yuta ; Nico, Giovanni ; Sato, Motoyuki. / Time-Series Clustering Methodology for Estimating Atmospheric Phase Screen in Ground-Based InSAR Data. In: IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 2022 ; Vol. 60.

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title = "Time-Series Clustering Methodology for Estimating Atmospheric Phase Screen in Ground-Based InSAR Data",
abstract = "In multitemporal interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) applications, propagation delay in the troposphere introduces a major source of disturbance known as atmospheric phase screen (APS). This study proposes a novel framework to compensate for the APS from multitemporal ground-based InSAR data. The proposed framework first performs time-series clustering in accordance with the temporal APS behavior realized by the $k$ -means clustering approach. In the second step, joint estimation of the APS and displacement velocity is performed. For this purpose, a novel interferometric signal model, including the APS modeled by the median profiles defined in each cluster, is proposed. The proposed framework is validated with the Ku-band ground-based synthetic aperture radar data sets measured over a mountainous area in Kumamoto, Japan. Tests on these data sets reveal that compared with the conventional approach, the presented approach improves displacement estimation accuracy under severe atmospheric conditions.",
keywords = "Atmospheric phase screen (APS), differential radar interferometry, ground-based synthetic aperture radar (GB-SAR), interferometric SAR (InSAR), k-means clustering, time-series InSAR",
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