TY - JOUR
T1 - The shuttle radar topography mission - A new class of digital elevation models acquired by spaceborne radar
AU - Rabus, Bernhard
AU - Eineder, Michael
AU - Roth, Achim
AU - Bamler, Richard
PY - 2003/2
Y1 - 2003/2
N2 - For 11 days in February 2000, the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) successfully recorded by interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) data of the entire land mass of the earth between 60°N and 57°S. The data acquired in C- and X-bands are processed into the first global digital elevation models (DEMs) at 1 arc sec resolution, by NASA-JPL and German aerospace center (DLR), respectively. From the perspective of the SRTM-X system, we give in this paper an overview of the mission and the DEM production, as well as an evaluation of the DEM product quality. Special emphasis is on challenges and peculiarities of the processing that arose from the unique design of the SRTM system, which has been the first single-pass interferometer in space.
AB - For 11 days in February 2000, the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) successfully recorded by interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) data of the entire land mass of the earth between 60°N and 57°S. The data acquired in C- and X-bands are processed into the first global digital elevation models (DEMs) at 1 arc sec resolution, by NASA-JPL and German aerospace center (DLR), respectively. From the perspective of the SRTM-X system, we give in this paper an overview of the mission and the DEM production, as well as an evaluation of the DEM product quality. Special emphasis is on challenges and peculiarities of the processing that arose from the unique design of the SRTM system, which has been the first single-pass interferometer in space.
KW - Digital elevation models
KW - Interferometry
KW - Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM)
KW - Synthetic aperture radar
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U2 - 10.1016/S0924-2716(02)00124-7
DO - 10.1016/S0924-2716(02)00124-7
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0037319812
SN - 0924-2716
VL - 57
SP - 241
EP - 262
JO - ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
JF - ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
IS - 4
ER -