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<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">ISPRS-Archives</journal-id>
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<journal-title>The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences</journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="publisher">ISPRS-Archives</abbrev-journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="nlm-ta">Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci.</abbrev-journal-title>
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<issn pub-type="epub">2194-9034</issn>
<publisher><publisher-name>Copernicus Publications</publisher-name>
<publisher-loc>Göttingen, Germany</publisher-loc>
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<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.5194/isprs-archives-XLII-4-W4-287-2017</article-id>
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<article-title>APPLICATION OF EXTENDED KALMAN FILTER IN PERSISTANT SCATTERER INTERFEROMETRY TO ENHACE THE ACCURACY OF UNWRAPPING PROCESS</article-title>
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<contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Tavakkoli Estahbanat</surname>
<given-names>A.</given-names>
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<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Dehghani</surname>
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<sup>2</sup>
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<label>1</label>
<addr-line>Remote sensing of the Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, School of Engineering, Shiraz University, Iran</addr-line>
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<label>2</label>
<addr-line>Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, School of Engineering, Shiraz University, Iran</addr-line>
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<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>27</day>
<month>09</month>
<year>2017</year>
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<volume>XLII-4/W4</volume>
<fpage>287</fpage>
<lpage>291</lpage>
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<copyright-statement>Copyright: &#x000a9; 2017 A. Tavakkoli Estahbanat</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2017</copyright-year>
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<p>In interferometry technique, phases have been modulated between 0-2π. Finding the number of integer phases missed when they were wrapped is the main goal of unwrapping algorithms. Although the density of points in conventional interferometry is high, this is not effective in some cases such as large temporal baselines or noisy interferograms. Due to existing noisy pixels, not only it does not improve results, but also it leads to some unwrapping errors during interferogram unwrapping. In PS technique, because of the sparse PS pixels, scientists are confronted with a problem to unwrap phases. Due to the irregular data separation, conventional methods are sterile. Unwrapping techniques are divided in to path-independent and path-dependent in the case of unwrapping paths. A region-growing method which is a path-dependent technique has been used to unwrap PS data. In this paper an idea of EKF has been generalized on PS data. This algorithm is applied to consider the nonlinearity of PS unwrapping problem as well as conventional unwrapping problem. A pulse-pair method enhanced with singular value decomposition (SVD) has been used to estimate spectral shift from interferometric power spectral density in 7*7 local windows. Furthermore, a hybrid cost-map is used to manage the unwrapping path. This algorithm has been implemented on simulated PS data. To form a sparse dataset, A few points from regular grid are randomly selected and the RMSE of results and true unambiguous phases in presented to validate presented approach. The results of this algorithm and true unwrapped phases were completely identical.</p>
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