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Moreover, the layout of control points in difficult mapping areas consumes a lot of manpower and time, which is not suitable for large-scale high-precision topographic mapping. To solve these problems, this paper proposes an automatic extraction of tie-points and interferometric calibration technology based on tie-points. This technology develops the automatic extraction algorithm of tie-points based on SAR + SIFT + RANSAC to obtain evenly distributed tie-points of adjacent images, and uses the evenly distributed tie-points as real known points to recalibrate the interference parameters, then carries out elevation transfer and elevation inversion through the tie-points of overlapping areas, thus realizing high-precision mapping without control points for airborne millimeter-wave InSAR. This paper uses measured data to verify the technology, and compares it with the areas with control points and marking points. The comparison results of elevation accuracy prove the feasibility and effectiveness of this method. This paper also discusses the difficulties in the treatment of typical areas, such as water areas, urban areas and mountain areas, and gives reasonable solutions that have good engineering application value.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs15030572","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,1,19]],"date-time":"2023-01-19T05:06:14Z","timestamp":1674104774000},"page":"572","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":4,"title":["Airborne Millimeter-Wave InSAR Terrain Mapping Experiments Based on Automatic Extraction and Interferometric Calibration of Tie-Points"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"15","author":[{"given":"Bin","family":"Zhang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Beijing Institute of Radio Measurement, Beijing 100854, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0243-5801","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Futai","family":"Xie","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Beijing Institute of Radio Measurement, Beijing 100854, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Liuliu","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Beijing Institute of Radio Measurement, Beijing 100854, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Shuang","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Beijing Institute of Radio Measurement, Beijing 100854, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Lideng","family":"Wei","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Beijing Institute of Radio Measurement, Beijing 100854, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Liang","family":"Feng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Beijing Institute of Radio Measurement, Beijing 100854, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,1,18]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1","DOI":"10.1088\/0266-5611\/14\/4\/001","article-title":"Synthetic Aperture Radar Interferometry","volume":"14","author":"Bamler","year":"1998","journal-title":"Inverse Probl."},{"key":"ref_2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Liu, J., Hu, J., Li, Z., Ma, Z., Shi, J., Xu, W., and Sun, Q. 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