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to what extent does water affect co-registration?
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06 Oct 2012 05:22 AM
    I'm curious if water plays any role in the co-registration process for interferogram creation. Most of my research focuses on coastal zones undergoing subsidence in the United States (Texas, Louisiana Mississippi) and, as a result,large portions of the scene contain water. This doesn't appear to be an issue with Envisat data but ERS2 data I'm beginning to wonder if this could be a problem. The SARscape help says that when it attempts to co-register scenes, it first creates 'mini interferograms' randomly throughout the entire scene and then works from there. If the scene contains large portions of water (in some case as much as 1/3 of the scene is water) and it is not aware that it's trying to co-register a particular area that is water, of course it would fail. Is SARscape intelligent enough to know NOT to attempt co-registration in those areas of a scene that contain water? If it's not, how do we work around this issue?

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    10 Oct 2012 11:21 AM
    Yes, the presence of lots of featureless water can affect the coregistration step in SARscape interferogram generation. For that reason, during the interferogram generation step, the dialog has an option for you to specify a "Coregistration file". This file would contain points to use as the centers of the coregistration windows, instead of the default points that SARscape would otherwise pick. If you don't specify a Coregistration file, then SARscape will try to pick points spread throughout the whole image. In your case, you would include in your Coregistration file only points that are on land. - Peg Exelis VIS Tech Support

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    10 Oct 2012 01:39 PM
    Ok, thanks Peg. How do you manually co-register SAR data pairs for differential InSAR or persistant scatterers (PS). I don't see an option to input a co-registration file. Would you manually co-register the data from SArsape-->Basic-->Coregistration and then use the ouput as the input for the DInSAR or PS process?
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