Existing SAR tomography (TomoSAR) algorithms are mostly based on an inversion
of the SAR imaging model, which are often computationally expensive. Previous
study showed perspective of using data-driven methods like KPCA to decompose
the signal and reduce the computational complexity. This paper gives a
preliminary demonstration of a new data-driven method based on sparse Bayesian
learning. Experiments on simulated data show that the proposed method
significantly outperforms KPCA methods in estimating the steering vectors of
the scatterers. This gives a perspective of data-drive approach or combining it
with model-driven approach for high precision tomographic inversion of large
areas.Comment: accepted in preliminary version for EUSAR2020 conferenc
