A CNN-Based Interferogram Filtering Approach to Enhance the Co-Seismic Surface Displacements Identification by Exploiting the EPOSAR DInSAR Maps Global Archive

Over the past 30 years it has been widely demonstrated the effectiveness of the Differential Synthetic Aperture Radar Interferometry (DInSAR) technique to retrieve surface deformation information relevant to tectonically active areas. However, this technique exhibits some limitations due the presence of possible decorrelation effects, phase unwrapping errors, and artefacts due to the temporal/spatial variability of the atmospheric conditions between the SAR acquisition pairs exploited to generate the interferograms and the corresponding deformation maps or time series. A challenging situation may arise when an earthquake event occurs and a co-seismic DInSAR deformation map is generated to quickly support risk management operations. In this scenario, having an automatic process reducing the uncertainties of the retrieved, DInSAR-based, surface deformation information could highly improve the quality of the products made available to the scientific community and of the service provided to the national disaster recovery authorities. We present in this work a solution, based on standard CNN architectures embedded in the DInSAR processing chain of the EPOSAR service, developed within the European Plate Observing System (EPOS) Research Infrastructure, to automatically identify co-seismic ground deformation patterns.