A wavelet domain detail compensation filtering technique for InSAR interferograms

The quality of interferogram filtering affects the accuracy of interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) applications. This article presents a new wavelet domain filtering method for phase noise reduction in an InSAR interferogram. The method first transforms the real and imagery parts of the original interferogram into the wavelet domain using the stationary wavelet transform (SWT). Then the coefficients for each sub-band are filtered with detail compensation. Finally, the wavelet coefficients are reconstructed in the space domain by the inverse SWT. The results show that the proposed method can suppress the speckle effectively, maintain details of the interferogram well, and greatly reduce the number of residues.