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Due to the added complexity of TOPS-mode interferometric processing, however, Sentinel-1 ice velocity measurements currently rely exclusively on amplitude offset tracking, which generates measurements of substantially lower accuracy and spatial resolution than would be possible with Differential SAR Interferometry (DInSAR). The main difficulty associated with TOPS interferometry lies in the spatially variable azimuth phase contribution arising from along-track motion within the scene. We present a Sentinel-1 interferometric processing chain, which reduces the azimuth coupling to the line-of-sight phase signal through a spatially adaptive coregistration refinement incorporating azimuth velocity measurements. The latter are based on available ice velocity mosaics, optionally supplemented by Burst-Overlap Multi-Aperture Interferometry. The DInSAR processing chain is demonstrated for a large drainage basin in Northeast Greenland, encompassing the Northeast Greenland Ice Stream (NEGIS), and integrated with state-of-the-art offset tracking measurements. In the ice sheet interior, the combined DInSAR and offset tracking ice velocity product provides a spatial resolution of     50 \u00d7 50  m     and 1-sigma accuracies of 0.18 and 0.44 m\/y in the x and y components respectively, compared to GPS.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs12122014","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,6,23]],"date-time":"2020-06-23T09:05:33Z","timestamp":1592903133000},"page":"2014","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":31,"title":["Improved Ice Velocity Measurements with Sentinel-1 TOPS Interferometry"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"12","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-6372-9435","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jonas Kvist","family":"Andersen","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"DTU Space Institute, Technical University of Denmark (DTU), DK-2800 Kongens Lyngby, Denmark"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-7822-4758","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Anders","family":"Kusk","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"DTU Space Institute, Technical University of Denmark (DTU), DK-2800 Kongens Lyngby, Denmark"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"John Peter Merryman","family":"Boncori","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"DTU Space Institute, Technical University of Denmark (DTU), DK-2800 Kongens Lyngby, Denmark"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-9665-1339","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Christine Sch\u00f8tt","family":"Hvidberg","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-1634-6009","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Aslak","family":"Grinsted","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,6,23]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"233","DOI":"10.1038\/s41586-019-1855-2","article-title":"Mass balance of the Greenland Ice Sheet from 1992 to 2018","volume":"579","author":"Shepherd","year":"2020","journal-title":"Nature"},{"key":"ref_2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"125012","DOI":"10.1088\/1748-9326\/aaf2ed","article-title":"Global sea-level contribution from Arctic land ice: 1971\u20132017","volume":"13","author":"Box","year":"2018","journal-title":"Environ. 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