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Articles | Volume XLII-3
https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-XLII-3-1635-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-XLII-3-1635-2018
30 Apr 2018
 | 30 Apr 2018

AN ASSESSMENT OF SPACEBORNE NEAR-NADIR INTERFEROMETRIC SAR PERFORMANCE OVER INLAND WATERS WITH REAL

H. Tan, S. Y. Li, and Z. W. Liu

Keywords: Key Laboratory of Space Utilization, Technology and Engineering Center for space Utilization, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Abstract. Elevation measurements of the continental water surface have been poorly collected with in situ measurements or occasionally with conventional altimeters with low accuracy. Techniques using InSAR at near-nadir angles to measure the inland water elevation with large swath and with high accuracy have been proposed, for instance, the WSOA on Jason 2 and the KaRIn on SWOT. However, the WSOA was abandoned unfortunately and the SWOT is planned to be launched in 2021. In this paper, we show real acquisitions of the first spaceborne InSAR of such kind, the Interferometric Imaging Radar Altimeter (InIRA), which has been working on Tiangong II spacecraft since 2016. We used the 90-m SRTM DEM as a reference to estimate the phase offset, and then an empirical calibration model was used to correct the baseline errors.