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Figure 5: Rain induced signal delay (in cm) for a rain rate of(a)5
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Figure 4: Geometry used for Insar computations for a flat area in
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Figure 6: Resulting interferograms (a) rain free (b) 5 mm/h (c) 50
mm/h (d) 100 mm/h.