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Abstract

Although a Coherent Transponder (CT) is widely utilized in the field of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), its Digital Elevation Model (DEM) has yet not been well studied for Interferometry SAR (InSAR). Based on the fact that the interferometry phase is a constant for CT with single transmit antenna, this paper mainly focuses on InSAR DEM induced by CT. The decorrelation effect in the intersection region of CT and nature terrain is researched in detail to support the analysis of CT's phase-unwrapping. The most important property, which makes DEM of CT being unique, is found to be the "slope" effect. The incline angel of "main slope" of DEM is verified to be determined only by the depression angle of InSAR system, whereas the incline angles of the "subordinate slopes" are affected by all the geometric parameters of InSAR baseline. Finally, all the incline angels are independent of CT' s waveform modulations, since the modulations have no contribution to the interferometry phase.

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