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Sensors 2008, 8, 7172-7190; DOI: 10.3390/s8117172 OPEN ACCESS sensors ISSN 1424-8220 /journal/sensors Article Interferometric Phase Improvement Based on Polarimetric Data Fusion Tao Xiong 1,*, Jian Yang 1 and Weijie Zhang 1 Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China; E-mails: yangjian_ee@ (J. Y.); wj-zhang@ (W. Z.) * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-mail: xiongtao00@ (T. X.); Tel.: +86-10 Fax: +86-10 Received: 2 June 2008; in revised form: 7 September 2008 / Accepted: 7 November 2008 / Published: 13 November 2008 Abstract: In this paper, a method is proposed to improve the interferometric phase quality, based on fusing data from different polarimetric channels. Since lower amplitude implies less reliable phase in general, the phase quality of polarimetric interferometric data can be improved by seeking optimal fusion of data from different polarizations to maximize the resulting amplitude. In the proposed approach, for each pixel, two coherent polarimetric scattering vectors are synchronously projected onto a same optimum direction, maximizing the lower amplitude of the two projections. In the single-look case, the fused phase is equivalent to the weighted average of phases in all polarimetric channels. It provides a good physical explanation of the proposed approach. Without any filtering, the phase noise and the number of residue points are significantly redu