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In contrast to PS, DS is vulnerable to temporal and geometric decorrelation effects. Thus, phase optimization processing for DS is essential for reliable deformation parameter estimation. Advanced research has revealed that the application of all possible interferometric pairs will be more conducive to the reduction in phase biases. However, the low-coherence pixels will inevitably increase the difficulty of phase optimization and introduce unpredictable negative effects, which will reduce the effect of phase optimization. Therefore, this study proposed an advanced adaptive weighted phase optimization algorithm (AWPOA). In the AWPOA, the adaptive weighting strategy based on the sigmoid model was first proposed to assign more reasonable weights to pixels of different quality, which can efficiently reduce the negative influence of low-coherence pixels and improve the optimization performance. Moreover, coherence bias correction based on the second-kind statistics and an efficient solution strategy based on eigenvalue decomposition were derived and applied to achieve optimal phase series retrieval. The experimental results validated against both simulated and two sets of TerraSAR-X data demonstrated the overall superiority of the AWPOA over traditional phase optimization algorithms (POAs). Specifically, the processing efficiency of the eigenvalue decomposition solution strategy used in AWPOA was nearly 20 times faster than that of the PTA iterative solution strategy under the case without bias correction. Although bias correction increased the processing time, the optimization effect was significantly improved. Moreover, in terms of the quantitative evaluation indexes with the residual and the sum of the phase difference, the mean value of the improvement percentage of the AWPOA was increased by more than 12%, and the standard deviation was reduced by more than 1% over the traditional POAs, indicating its superior optimization performance and noise robustness.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs13163253","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,8,17]],"date-time":"2021-08-17T21:17:06Z","timestamp":1629235026000},"page":"3253","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":14,"title":["An Adaptive Weighted Phase Optimization Algorithm Based on the Sigmoid Model for Distributed Scatterers"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"13","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-9394-389X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Shijin","family":"Li","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Environment Science and Spatial Informatics, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou 221116, China"},{"name":"Land Satellite Remote Sensing Application Center, Ministry of Natural Resources of China, Beijing 100048, China"}]},{"given":"Shubi","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Environment Science and Spatial Informatics, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou 221116, China"}]},{"given":"Tao","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Land Satellite Remote Sensing Application Center, Ministry of Natural Resources of China, Beijing 100048, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-6224-5711","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Yandong","family":"Gao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Environment Science and Spatial Informatics, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou 221116, China"},{"name":"Land Satellite Remote Sensing Application Center, Ministry of Natural Resources of China, Beijing 100048, China"}]},{"given":"Xiaoqing","family":"Zhou","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Land Satellite Remote Sensing Application Center, Ministry of Natural Resources of China, Beijing 100048, China"}]},{"given":"Qianfu","family":"Chen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Land Satellite Remote Sensing Application Center, Ministry of Natural Resources of China, Beijing 100048, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6258-8709","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Xiang","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Land Satellite Remote Sensing Application Center, Ministry of Natural Resources of China, Beijing 100048, China"}]},{"given":"Chao","family":"Yang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Land Satellite Remote Sensing Application Center, Ministry of Natural Resources of China, Beijing 100048, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,8,17]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Zhang, Z., Wang, C., Wang, M., Wang, Z., and Zhang, H. 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