Exploitation of burst overlapping areas of TOPS data. Application to Sentinel-1

Abstract

This contribution will present the investigations carried out with stacked time-series of TOPS acquisitions to retrieve azimuth displacements. The exploitation of the burst overlapping areas allows to retrieve highly accurate ground displacement estimates in that direction, mitigating the limited performance of classical correlation techniques, due to the low resolution of the mode. The focus of this contribution is the application to time-series of Sentinel-1 data, where slow azimuthal motion is expected. Results with Sentinel-1 data on the proposed methodology are provided for the region of Balochistan, in Pakistan.