Interferometric SAR (InSAR) — deformation + DEM L1-108
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Forward model E
Interferometric SAR (InSAR) — deformation + DEM: insar coherent interferometry produces the measurement through a 5-node primitive DAG L.emit.chirp -> S.scan.platform -> L.interferometric_phase -> L.phase_unwrap -> int.spatial, with time-integrated exposure and multiplicative speckle (Rayleigh amplitude / exponential intensity). Recovery is posed as a non-convex inverse problem that inverts the forward operator to estimate the scene-side 2D deformation or DEM. Difficulty tier delta=5 with effective condition number kappa_eff~25; calibration-level mismatch (atmospheric_phase_screen, baseline_error, temporal_decorrelation) sets the accuracy floor at the Omega boundary. See the forward_model field for the closed-form imaging equation.
L-DAG
Well-posedness W
- Existence:
- true
- Uniqueness:
- true
- Stability:
- conditional
- κ:
- 500
Existence of the recovered 2D deformation or DEM is guaranteed within the declared Omega bounds. Uniqueness is local rather than global (non-convex landscape); convergence depends on initialisation and priors. Stability is moderately conditioned (kappa_eff ~= 25); atmospheric_phase_screen dominates the stability cliff; baseline_error and the remaining mismatch parameters contribute higher-order bias terms. Multiplicative speckle (rayleigh amplitude / exponential intensity) sets the irreducible data-fidelity floor, while TV / wavelet-sparsity / deep priors stabilise recovery at the ill-conditioned end of Omega.
Solvability C
- Solver class:
- iterative projection (ADMM / GAP) + optimisation [SNAPHU, Minimum-Cost-Flow] | linear-operator + deep neural prior [PhaseNet-InSAR]
- Convergence rate q:
- 2
- Complexity:
- O(H * W * log(...)) per iteration; learned variants: O(H W Z * F_theta_cost) per forward pass