Multi-Temporal Small Baseline Interferometric SAR Algorithms: Error Budget and Theoretical Performance
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
In this paper, the authors study the error bounds of the ground deformation InSAR products. The topic is very interesting, and the method is described in detail. However, the paper should be further improved before publication.
- Some symbols cannot clearly found in the paper, such as lines 101, 106-108. The authors should carefully proofread the paper before submitting their paper. Besides, some figures such as Fig. 9 are not clear. The authors should provide clear figures.
- The authors should describe their results shown in Figure like Fig. 4 etc. Without interpretations, the readers cannot understand empirical pdf and theoretical one in Fig. 4. The authors should check the whole paper to avoid similar issues.
- On line 761, the authors use 0.7 as the suitable threshold. The reviewer wanders to know the influence of this threshold on the results. At this point, the reviewer suggests that the authors discuss this issue.
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Reviewer 2 Report
The paper entitled "Multi-Temporal Small Baseline Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar Algorithms: Error Budget and Theoretical Performance" analyze, from a quantitative point of view, the theoretical performances and the relative errors that Small Baseline Subset Interferometric algorithms may have.
The paper is well written and well structured, therefore I reccomend its publication after a few fixes and clarifications.
In detail:
- Introduction section can be improved, after a well written and extensive section devoted to the state of the art, a more detailed and improved short description of the aim of the paper and the expected reults must be provided.
- Section 2.1 is unclear, and many typos can be found.
- Figure must be placed after their mention within the text. This is not always done within the text (see Fig.1 and many others)
- I wonder whether if the error estimation can be performed on Sentinel-1 data and if the results may show some similarities. A short mention can be given in the final section.
- Reference list must be completely checked and revised, since many mistakes can be found (authors missing, diffent styles, etc.)
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