A piecewise based high-precision registration of InSAR data

In Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) interferometry, the precise co-registration is a key problem to obtain the fine interferogram. Theoretically, 1/10 pixel accuracy is essential. Once the control points are determined, the relative rectification (pixel re-sampling) is also the important procedure. In this paper, a piecewise transformation algorithm based on Delaunay Tessellation algorithm is developed. The strategy is to “anchor” geographically all control points and transform the imagery on the basis of triangle by triangle. The piecewise algorithm, the accuracy evaluation and the preliminary results are described. The experiment result shows that the piecewise transformation out-performes the traditional polynomial transformation.