Superresolving SAR Tomography for Multidimensional Imaging of Urban Areas: Compressive sensing-based TomoSAR inversion

With reference to the current status of VHR spaceborne tomographic SAR inversion presented in this article, the following conclusions can be drawn: VHR tomographic SAR inversion is able to reconstruct the shape and motion of individual buildings and entire city areas. SR is crucial and possible, e.g., using CS, for VHR tomographic SAR inversion for urban infrastructure. The motion or deformation of buildings is often nonlinear (periodic, accelerating, stepwise, etc.). Multicomponent nonlinear motion of multiple scatterers can be separated. The 4-D point clouds retrieved by VHR TomoSAR has a point density comparable to LiDAR and can be potentially used for dynamic city model reconstruction.

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