本书主要讲解了利用星载雷达图像测量地表高程和形变的方法及其相应原理，包括利用雷达干涉测量(InSAR)生成DEM和测量地表形变、时序InSAR方法(PSInSAR、STUN、PSP、StaMPS、SBAS、QPS、SqueeSAR)、像元偏移量追踪以及SAR绝对定位技术，并给出了示例。着重对InSAR、时序InSAR方法的每个步骤都进行了清晰的介绍。此外，书中以船舶检测为例，生动介绍了雷达的成像原理及其目标的散射特性，为理解基于雷达的测量方法提供了知识基础。

本书可供遥感、测绘、地理信息及相关交叉领域的高校师生和科研人员参考。

前辅文
Part I SAR Basics
  Chapter 1 History of Radar Remote Sensing
  Chapter 2 Introduction to Synthetic Aperture Radar
   2.1 Technical Considerations for A Ship Detection Remote Sensing System
   2.2 The Relation Between Ship Size and Radar Backscattering
   2.3 Distinguishing Different Ships with A Radar Remote Sensing System
   2.4 Establishing A Target’s Position with SAR
   2.5 Speckle Effect
   2.6 SAR Satellite System for Ship Detection
   2.7 SAR Polarimetry
   2.8 Conclusions on the Developed SAR System for Ship Detection
Part II DEM Generation
  Chapter 3 SAR Interferometry
   3.1 Introduction into SAR Interferometry
   3.2 SAR Interferometry Processing Steps
   3.3 SAR Interferometry with Spotlight and TOPS Images
   3.4 Error Sources
   3.5 Conclusions
  Chapter 4 StereoSAR
   4.1 Introduction to Stereo-Radargrammetry
   4.2 Finding Homologous Points
   4.3 Deriving Relative Height Information
   4.4 DSM Generation
   4.5 Deriving Absolute Height Information
   4.6 Example Application of StereoSAR at Mount Song
   4.7 Conclusions
Part III Surface Motion
  Chapter 5 Differential SAR Interferometry
   5.1 Two-pass D-InSAR
   5.2 Three-pass D-InSAR
   5.3 Interpretation of Wrapped Differential Interferograms
   5.4 Measurement with Unwrapped Differential Interferograms
   5.5 Example: Coseismic Interferometry for the Bam Earthquake
   5.6 Conclusions
  Chapter 6 Permanent Scatterer Interferometry
   6.1 Identifying the Permanent Scatterers
   6.2 Pre-processing Steps
   6.3 Generation of A PS Network
   6.4 Estimation of the Atmospheric Phase Screen
   6.5 Velocity and Residual Height Estimation for All PS
   6.6 Including Alternative Motion Models
   6.7 Temporal Coherence
   6.8 Example
  Chapter 7 Alternative Approaches to PSI
   7.1 Spatio-Temporal Unwrapping Network
   7.2 Persistent Scatterer Pair Interferometry
   7.3 Stanford Method of Persistent Scatterers
  Chapter 8 Distributed Scatterer Interferometry
   8.1 Small Baseline Subset Technique
   8.2 Quasi-Persistent Scatter Technique
   8.3 SqueeSAR
  Chapter 9 Pixel Tracking and Point Target Offset Tracking
   9.1 Pixel Tracking
   9.2 Point-Target Offset Tracking
  Chapter 10 Motion from SAR Geodesy
   10.1 Positioning in SAR Images
   10.2 Factors Influencing the Positioning
   10.3 Absolute 3D Positioning Using Stereo Configuration
   10.4 Absolute Methods versus Relative Methods
   10.5 Motion from SAR Geodesy
   10.6 SAR Geodesy in Practice
Bibliography
Index