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Operational phase unwrapping is the primary computational bottleneck in InSAR-based volcanic and seismic monitoring. We challenge the industry trend of adopting high-complexity computer vision architectures, such as attention mechanisms,…

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Estimating subsurface dielectric properties is essential for applications ranging from environmental surveys of soils to nondestructive evaluation of concrete in infrastructure. Conventional wave inversion methods typically assume few…

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Phase unwrapping is a fundamental problem in InSAR data processing, supporting geophysical applications such as deformation monitoring and hazard assessment. Its reliability is limited by noise and decorrelation in radar acquisitions, which…

The large volumes of Sentinel-1 data produced over Europe are being used to develop pan-national ground motion services. However, simple analysis techniques like thresholding cannot detect and classify complex deformation signals reliably…

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Globally 800 million people live within 100 km of a volcano and currently 1500 volcanoes are considered active, but half of these have no ground-based monitoring. Alternatively, satellite radar (InSAR) can be employed to observe volcanic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-02 N. Anantrasirichai , F. Albino , P. Hill , D. Bull , J. Biggs

Nowadays, interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) has been a powerful tool in remote sensing by enhancing the information acquisition. During the InSAR processing, phase denoising of interferogram is a mandatory step for topography…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-22 Gang Xu , Yandong Gao , Jinwei Li , Mengdao Xing

Peatlands account for 10% of UK land area, 80% of which are degraded to some degree, emitting carbon at a similar magnitude to oil refineries or landfill sites. A lack of tools for rapid and reliable assessment of peatland condition has…

Moisture estimation of sub-surface soil and the overlaying biomass layer is pivotal in precision agriculture and wildfire risk assessment. However, the characterization of layered material is nontrivial due to the radar…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-01 Ishfaq Aziz , Elahe Soltanaghai , Adam Watts , Mohamad Alipour

Detection of oil spills from satellite images is essential for both environmental surveillance and maritime safety. Traditional threshold-based methods frequently encounter performance degradation due to very high false alarm rates caused…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Pavan Kumar Yata , Pediredla Pradeep , Goli Himanish , Swathi M

Satellites enable widespread, regional or global surveillance of volcanoes and can provide the first indication of volcanic unrest or eruption. Here we consider Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR), which can be employed to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-20 Nantheera Anantrasirichai , Juliet Biggs , Fabien Albino , David Bull

The detection of early signs of volcanic unrest preceding an eruption, in the form of ground deformation in Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) data is critical for assessing volcanic hazard. In this work we treat this as a…

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In this study the detection of the oil spill using synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery is considered. Detection of the oil spill is performed using change detection algorithms between imagery acquired at different times. The specific…

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In this paper, we investigate joint unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) formation and resource allocation optimization for communication-assisted three-dimensional (3D) synthetic aperture radar (SAR) sensing. We consider a system consisting of…

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Carbon capture and storage (CCS) plays a crucial role in mitigating greenhouse gas emissions, particularly from industrial outputs. Using seismic monitoring can aid in an accurate and robust monitoring system to ensure the effectiveness of…

Geophysics · Physics 2025-04-01 Xinquan Huang , Fu Wang , Tariq Alkhalifah

Multi-baseline interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) techniques are effective approaches for retrieving the 3-D information of urban areas. In order to obtain a plausible reconstruction, it is necessary to use large-stack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Yilei Shi , Richard Bamler , Yuanyuan Wang , Xiao Xiang Zhu

Accurate estimation of sub-surface properties such as moisture content and depth of soil and vegetation layers is crucial for applications spanning sub-surface condition monitoring, precision agriculture, and effective wildfire risk…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-02 Ishfaq Aziz , Elahe Soltanaghai , Adam Watts , Mohamad Alipour

We formulate a model for the mass exchange between oil at and below the sea surface. This is a particularly important aspect of modeling oil spills. Surface and subsurface oil have different chemical and transport characteristics and…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2018-11-28 Saeed Moghimi , Jorge Ramirez , Juan M. Restrepo , Shankar C. Venkataramani

Thanks to the broadband nature of the Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) measurement, a roadside section of the Stanford DAS-2 array can record seismic signals from various sources. For example, it measures the earth's quasi-static…

Geophysics · Physics 2020-06-03 Siyuan Yuan , Ariel Lellouch , Robert G. Clapp , Biondo Biondi

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) interferometry (InSAR) is performed using repeat-pass geometry. InSAR technique is used to estimate the topographic reconstruction of the earth surface. The main problem of the range-Doppler focusing technique…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-03-15 Gabriele Costante , Thomas A. Ciarfuglia , Filippo Biondi

To avoid decorrelation, conventional synthetic aperture radar interferometry (InSAR) requires that interferometric images should have a common spectral band and the same resolution after proper preprocessing. For a high-resolution (HR)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-15 Huizhang Yang , Chengzhi Chen , Shengyao Chen , Feng Xi , Zhong Liu