Bulletin of Surveying and Mapping ›› 2020, Vol. 0 ›› Issue (2): 142-146.doi: 10.13474/j.cnki.11-2246.2020.0061

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DEM generation in difficult areas based on InSAR and weighted fusion

HU Dongming, SUI Lichun, DING Mingtao   

  1. College of Geological Engineering and Geomatics, Chang'an University, Xi'an 710054, China
  • Received:2019-05-20 Revised:2019-06-27 Online:2020-02-25 Published:2020-03-04

Abstract: Synthetic aperture radar interferometry (InSAR) technology has the characteristics of all-day and all-weather, and it can extract DEM quickly and efficiently in a wide range. DEM can be generated normally by InSAR technology even in rainforests covered by cloud and fog all year round. In the second chapter, DEM in the research area is generated by InSAR, which verifies the feasibility of this method. Due to dense vegetation in the study area and a large area of water swamp, low coherence and partial incoherence phenomena exist in the InSAR processing process, which easily leads to errors and cavities in DEM generated based on InSAR technology. To solve this problem, a pixel-level fusion method based on coherent basis as a weighted function is proposed in this paper, where SRTM DEM and AW3D30 DEM are used as exogenous data to fuse with InSAR DEM. In this way,the problems of errors and cavities in DEM generation based on InSAR technology can be solved, and the integrity of DEM can be guaranteed.

Key words: SAR, InSAR, DEM extraction, coherence factor weighting, DEM fusion

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