InSAR data acquired from independent overlapping tracks can be exploited for a reliability assessment of the Persistent Scatterer InSAR (PS-InSAR) technique. This is obtained by means of the datum connection of multiple tracks, simultaneously evaluating the misclosures between multi-track PS-InSAR estimates. Due to a different viewing geometry, many of the detected PS will physically not be the same. However, their estimates may still refer to the same deformation signal. The existence of independent observations of the same deformation signal provides a powerful tool to increase the redundancy and evaluate the reliability. The datum connection can be subdivided in two steps. The first step consists of the conversion of PS locations to a common datum. Secondly, the PS-InSAR parameter estimates (velocities, displacements, heights) are connected. In stead of the conventional approach of separately geocoding each track, we propose the use of a common radar datum defined by the acquisition geometry of the 'master track'. Multi-track datum connection has been applied in the Groningen region, the Netherlands, which is affected by subsidence due to gas extraction with displacement rates up to 7 mm/year. The main reservoir is (partly) visible in 6 independent overlapping ERS tracks from 1992 (ascending and descending). Datum connection resulted in a consistent set of PS-InSAR deformation estimates. Additionally, the deformation signal was decomposed in horizontal and vertical movements, utilizing the different viewing geometries of the tracks.@en

PS-InSAR has proven to be an accurate and efficient technique for the joint estimation of topographic and displacement signal from stacked interferometric combinations. In this contribution a new method for PS-Insert processing is introduced, which enables the recursive estimation of parameters of interest. The method is based on the ILSQ PS-InSAR concept and makes use of the estimation vector and corresponding variance-covariance matrix of the initial estimation epoch. The presented methodology systematically adds a new acquisition (or set of acquisitions) to the existing stack, updates the solution of the previous run, and analyzes whether the behaviour of the (pre-) selected points fits the expected one. This contribution focuses on a mathematical framework, rather then on specific applicational problems. Nevertheless, the performed numerical analysis on simulated data sets is analyzed and discussed, which shows that the preset aims of the recursive PS-InSAR estimation technique is achieved.@en