EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing 
Volume 2005 (2005), Issue 20, Pages 3180-3193
doi:10.1155/ASP.2005.3180

Multichannel SAR Interferometry via Classical and Bayesian Estimation Techniques

Alessandra Budillon,1 Giancarlo Ferraiuolo,2 Vito Pascazio,1 and Gilda Schirinzi3

1Dipartimento per le Tecnologie, Università degli Studi di Napoli “Parthenope” , via Acton 38, Napoli 80133 , Italy
2Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettronica e delle Telecomunicazioni, Università degli Studi di Napoli “Federico II”, via Claudio 21, Napoli 80125, Italy
3Dipartimento di Automazione Elettromagnetismo Ingegneria dell'Informazione Matematica Industriale (DAEIMI), Università degli Studi di Cassino, via Di Biasio 43, Cassino 03043, Italy

Received 10 August 2004; Revised 20 January 2005

Abstract

Some multichannel synthetic aperture radar interferometric configurations are analyzed. Both across-track and along-track interferometric systems, allowing to recover the height profile of the ground or the moving target radial velocities, respectively, are considered. The joint use of multichannel configurations, which can be either multifrequency or multi-baseline, and of classical or Bayesian statistical estimation techniques allows to obtain very accurate solutions and to overcome the limitations due to the presence of ambiguous solutions, intrinsic in the single-channel configurations. The improved performance of the multichannel-based methods with respect to the corresponding single-channel ones has been tested with numerical experiments on simulated data.