Method and system for creating interferometric coherence data products for objects

A method for creating interferometric coherence data products for objects imaged by a Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) having at least one polarization the method comprising:

• for each identifiable object geometry for which there are acquired geocoded interferometric SAR images generated from SAR image pairs and processed with flat-earth and topographic phase components removed, the images having the following pixel values:
• a backscatter intensity V1 in the at least one polarization for a master image;
• a backscatter intensity V2 in the at least one polarization for a slave image;
• an in-phase component V3 of a geocoded interferogram in the at least one polarization;
• and
• a quadratic-phase component V4 of the geocoded interferogram in the at least one polarization,
• determining, using a processor, which geocoded pixels are within the identifiable object geometry considering a known geolocation accuracy of the identifiable object geometry and the geocoded interferometric SAR images;
• and
• determining, using a processor, coherence values and statistics of the coherence values for the objects for the at least one polarization, based on the pixel values V1, V2, V3, and V4 within the identifiable object geometry.