A Joint Model For Isolating Stratified Tropospheric Delays In Multi-Temporal Insar

Stratified tropospheric delays (TDs) in differential interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) result from the temporal variation of vertical stratification in the lower part of the troposphere. Although an approximately model can be made by assuming a linear relationship between topography and delayed phase in the interferogram, the estimation is weakened by the spatial variability of troposphere and the interference from other confounding signals (e.g., deformation, topographic error and orbit error, etc.). In this contribution, a jointly tropospheric correction scheme is proposed to simultaneously estimate stratified tropospheric delays with deformation and topographic errors. Spatial variability of tropospheric properties is addressed through a localized estimation which is derived by quadtree segmentation according to height gradient. The performance of the proposed method is validated and compared with the conventional linear and weather-model-based methods using Sentinel-1 dataset.