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Quality Assessment and Validation of Digital Surface Models Derived From the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM)
Overview The first mission using space-borne single-pass-interferometry was launched in February 2000 - the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM). The goal of this mission has been to survey the Earth's surface and generating a homogeneous and dense elevation data set of the entire world. Antennas with two different wavelengths were used. One of the hardware components was the German / Italian Synthetic Aperture Radar X-band antenna (X-SAR). This paper reports on an attempt to check the quality and accuracy of the elevation data derived from the X-band instrument of SRTM. First of all possible error sources influencing the data quality and accuracy will be described and the effects of these errors will be demonstrated.
| Publisher | University of Hanover | File Format | |
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| Date Published | April 2000 | ||
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