journal article·2026-02-28Open access

Phase Reconstruction and Unwrapping Method for InSAR Building Layover Areas in Complex Scenes Integrated with YOLOv11

Miao Xu, Guowang Jin, Ruibing Cui, Hao Ye, Jiajun Wang

Applied Sciences· Volume 16· Issue 5

Abstract

Aimed at the problems of severe layover, interferometric phase aliasing and phase jumps caused by dense urban features, which lead to difficulties in phase unwrapping and insufficient automation and intelligence in building areas under complex scenes, this paper proposes a phase reconstruction and unwrapping method for interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) building layover areas in complex scenarios integrated with YOLOv11. Based on a self-constructed dedicated dataset, the YOLOv11 object detection network is trained to identify and locate building layover areas in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images and extract their original interferometric phases. On this basis, by integrating the building facade interferometry model and the interferometric phase gradient model, regions dominated by facade scattering are effectively identified, and their interferometric phases are reconstructed to reduce scattering interference from non-relevant areas. Finally, the reconstructed phase is unwrapped using a quality-guided phase unwrapping method. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method can automatically and intelligently achieve phase unwrapping in building areas under complex scenes, providing reliable technical support for urban deformation monitoring and 3D reconstruction.
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Research context

OpenAlex topics: Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Applications and Techniques · Advanced SAR Imaging Techniques · Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing

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Affiliations

Institute of Geospatial Information, Information Engineering University, Zhengzhou 450001, China

National Key Laboratory of Intelligent Spatial Information, Beijing 100094, China

School of Remote Sensing Engineering, Henan College of Surveying and Mapping, Zhengzhou 450001, China

Funding

National Key Research and Development Program of China · Excellent Young Scientists Fund of Henan Natural Science Foundation

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