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Presently, non-parametric methods, which use the polynomial to model the systematic errors of InSAR-generated DEMs, are most frequently used in spaceborne InSAR-DEM adjustment. However, non-parametric methods are not directly related to the physical parameters in the InSAR imaging process. Given the issue, this paper conducts adjustments in the parameter domain and proposes a three-dimensional block adjustment method for spaceborne bistatic InSAR systems based on the Range-Doppler-Phase (RDP) model. First, we theoretically analyze the sensitivities of spatial baseline, azimuth time, and slant range to the RDP geolocation model and confirm the analysis method with a simulated geolocation result. Second, we use total differential and differential geometry theories to derive adjustment equations of available control data based on sensitivity analysis. Third, we put forward an iterative solution strategy to solve the corrections of parallel baseline, azimuth time, and slant range to improve the plane and elevation accuracies of InSAR-generated DEMs. We used 29 scenes of TanDEM-X Co-registered Single look Slant range Complex (CoSSC) data to conduct simulated and real data experiments. The simulated results show that the proposed method can improve the accuracies of baseline, range, and timing to 0.05 mm, 0.1 m, and 0.006 ms, respectively. In the real data experiment, the proposed method improves the plane and elevation accuracies to 4.14 m and 1.34 m, respectively, and effectively suppresses the fracture phenomenon in the DEM mosaic area.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs15041046","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,2,15]],"date-time":"2023-02-15T01:38:18Z","timestamp":1676425098000},"page":"1046","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":7,"title":["A Three-Dimensional Block Adjustment Method for Spaceborne InSAR Based on the Range-Doppler-Phase Model"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"15","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0978-7036","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Rui","family":"Wang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Key Laboratory of Technology in Geo-Spatial Information Processing and Application System, Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China"},{"name":"Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100094, China"},{"name":"School of Electronic, Electrical and Communication Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Xiaolei","family":"Lv","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Key Laboratory of Technology in Geo-Spatial Information Processing and Application System, Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China"},{"name":"Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100094, China"},{"name":"School of Electronic, Electrical and Communication Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Huiming","family":"Chai","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Key Laboratory of Technology in Geo-Spatial Information Processing and Application System, Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China"},{"name":"Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100094, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Li","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Key Laboratory of Technology in Geo-Spatial Information Processing and Application System, Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China"},{"name":"Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100094, China"},{"name":"School of Electronic, Electrical and Communication Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,2,14]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"333","DOI":"10.1109\/5.838084","article-title":"Synthetic aperture radar interferometry","volume":"88","author":"Rosen","year":"2000","journal-title":"Proc. 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