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Since ionospheric disturbance seriously contaminates the InSAR phase in the case of the lower-frequency SAR system, it is necessary for a PWV error level evaluation correcting the ionospheric effect appropriately if we use lower-frequency SAR systems, such as the Advanced Land Observing Satellite-2 (ALOS-2). In this paper, we evaluated the error level of the L-band InSARPWV observation obtained from ALOS-2 data covering four areas in Japan. We compared the InSAR observations with global navigation satellite system (GNSS) atmospheric observations and estimated the L-band InSARPWV error value by utilizing the error propagation theory. As a result, the L-band InSARPWV absolute error reached 2.83 mm, which was comparable to traditional PWV observations. 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