The invention relates to a deformation rate
estimation method and
system, and the method comprises the steps: recognizing homogeneous pixels, and constructing a coherence matrix; performing eigenvalue
decomposition and
principal component analysis on the coherence matrix to obtain an optimized phase; calculating time coherence according to the
interferometric phase with
low noise and clear fringes; selecting a distributed scatterer according to a homogeneous pixel preset threshold value and a time coherence preset threshold value; and performing combined
processing on the distributed scatterer and the
permanent scatterer, and estimating the deformation rate of each
measurement point. According to the embodiment of the invention, the coherence matrix is constructed according to the homogeneous pixels, so that the problem of deviation caused by the participation of heterogeneous pixels in
matrix estimation can be avoided; compared with a
covariance matrix, the coherence matrix can avoid the influence of back scattering
power imbalance possibly existing in the image; the time coherence is calculated by adopting an interference phase with
low noise and clear fringes, so that the influence of the low-quality interference phase can be avoided; and
principal component analysis is performed after eigenvalue
decomposition of the coherence matrix, so that the operation efficiency of phase optimization can be improved.