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System Concepts and Potential Applications of a Tri-Beam Spaceborne SAR Mission

Multitemporal synthetic aperture radar interferometry (MT-InSAR), capable of detecting both surface deformation and elevation with high precision, is used for many applications in earth observation. Conventional synthetic aperture radar (SAR) missions with a single beam only detect deformation along the line of sight (LOS) and relative elevation due to the undetermined model of phase wrapping. In a multisatellite SAR mission, measurements from different SAR geometry improve the sensitivity of the detectable deformation, especially to the deformation along the north-south (N-S) direction. However, it is difficult to combine the measurements from varying viewing angles since the absolute phase cannot be reconstructed without a ground control point. In this article, a tri-beam SAR system is introduced to detect 3-D deformation and derive multiview 3-D surface model from a single spaceborne platform. The accuracy of the 3-D deformation from the tri-beam SAR is exploited with varying squint and incident angles to obtain the optimal parameters of the three beams. Then a multidimensional coherent scattering model is used to simulate the multitemporal SAR data with different viewing angles. Regarding the tri-beam SAR, potential applications in earth observation including 3-D deformation monitoring, geodetic stereo SAR, and multiview 3-D forest reconstruction are investigated subsequently. The results of this study indicate that the tri-beam SAR is able to measure 3-D deformation and reconstruct 3-D surface model without ground control point.