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We present an enhanced version of the SBAS-DInSAR processing chain, which complements the conventional SBAS codes with a simple noise-filtering procedure that allows us to mitigate noise artifacts affecting the sequence of multi-look (multi-temporal) small baseline interferograms used within the SBAS inversion. We demonstrate that the use of such a noise-filtering algorithm permits to significantly improve the quality of the mean deformation velocity maps and displacement time-series retrieved via the SBAS-DInSAR processing chain, thus promoting more detailed analyses of the detected deformation phenomena. The overall effectiveness of the enhanced SBAS-DInSAR approach is confirmed by the experimental results achieved by applying the proposed method to two sets of SAR data collected by the ERS-1/2 and ENVISAT sensors over the Mt. Etna volcano (Southern Italy) and Yellowstone caldera …