An Interferometric Phase Optimization Method Joining Polarimetric and Temporal Dimensions

Abstract

The polarimetric phase optimization method has been integrated into the multitemporal synthetic aperture radar interferometry (MT-InSAR) framework to enhance phase quality and deformation coverage, known as multitemporal polarimetric InSAR (MT-PolInSAR) technology. However, most existing MT-PolInSAR methods optimize phase separately in the temporal and polarimetric dimensions, failing to leverage the interdimensional relationships fully. This article proposes a novel multipolarization optimization method, which achieves one-step phase optimization by joining temporal and polarimetric dimensions based on a joint probability density function and maximum likelihood estimation (MLE). Additionally, a no-threshold regularization is employed to strengthen the stability of the multipolarization covariance matrix. The proposed approach has been validated through synthetic and real quad-polarization datasets. Regarding the real data, ALOS-2/PARSAR-2 from the Fengjie landslide in China and Radarsat-2 data from the Barcelona airport in Spain are used. The experimental outcomes demonstrate that our proposed approach significantly diminishes phase noise while increasing the density of measurement points.