Kampes B. Radar Interferometry: Persistent Scatterer Technique

Dordrecht: Springer, 2006. - 211 p.
This book is intended for scientists and students who want to understand and work with Persistent Scatterer Interferometry. Particularly of interest for this group of readers are the derivation of the functional and stochastic model, the description of the estimation using integer least-squares and variance components, and the alternative hypothesis testing procedure, see Chapter 2, 3, and 4, respectively. The software toolbox on the CDROM explain these key
concepts using practical demonstrations, see also Appendix E. The modular programs can be easily adapted and be further developed by the interested reader for specific problems. Secondly, this book is intended to provide insight in the problems and pitfalls of Persistent Scatterer Interferometry for users of PSI products and of commercially available PSI processing software, and to enhance their understanding of this technique. This group of readers includes geo-information professionals and high level decision makers who do not perform PSI processing themselves. The description of the reference PS technique and potential improvements upon it, see Chapter 2, and Chapter 6 on real data processing may prove to be most useful for this group.