SBAS-InSAR technology is effective in obtaining surface deformation information and is widely used in monitoring landslides and mining subsidence. However, SBAS-InSAR technology is susceptible to various errors, including atmospheric, orbital, and phase unwrapping errors. These multiple errors pose significant challenges to precise deformation monitoring over large areas. This paper examines the spatial characteristics of these errors and introduces a spatially constrained SBAS-InSAR method, termed SSBAS-InSAR, which enhances the accuracy of wide-area surface deformation monitoring. The method employs multiple stable ground points to create a control network that limits the propagation of multiple types of errors in the interferometric unwrapped data, thereby reducing the impact of long-wavelength signals on local deformation measurements. The proposed method was applied to Sentinel-1 data from parts of Jining, China. The results indicate that, compared to the traditional SBAS-InSAR method, the SSBAS-InSAR method significantly reduced phase closure errors, deformation rate standard deviations, and phase residues, improved temporal coherence, and provided a clearer representation of deformation in time-series curves. This is crucial for studying surface deformation trends and patterns and for preventing related disasters.
This study addresses the issue of atmospheric delay correction for the rational polynomial coefficient (RPC) model associated with spaceborne synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery under conditions lacking ephemeris data, proposing a novel approach to enhance the geometric positioning accuracy of RPC models. A satellite position inversion method based on the vector-autonomous intersection technique was developed, incorporating ionospheric delay and neutral atmospheric delay models to derive atmospheric delay errors. Additionally, an RPC model reconstruction approach, which integrates atmospheric correction, is proposed. Validation experiments using GF-3 satellite imagery demonstrated that the atmospheric delay values obtained by this method differed by only 0.0001 m from those derived using the traditional ephemeris-based approach, a negligible difference. The method also exhibited high robustness in long-strip imagery. The reconstructed RPC parameters improved image-space accuracy by 18–44% and object-space accuracy by 19–32%. The results indicate that this approach can fully replace traditional ephemeris-based methods for atmospheric delay extraction under ephemeris-free conditions, significantly enhancing the geometric positioning accuracy of SAR imagery RPC models, with substantial application value and development potential.