The Shuttle Radar Topography Mission – a New Class of Digital Elevation Models Acquired by Spaceborne Radar. Rabus, B., Eineder, M., Roth, A., & Bamler, R. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 57(4):241–262, February, 2003.
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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[degree sign]N and 57[degree sign]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.
@article{rabusShuttleRadarTopography2003,
  title = {The Shuttle Radar Topography Mission -- a New Class of Digital Elevation Models Acquired by Spaceborne Radar},
  author = {Rabus, Bernhard and Eineder, Michael and Roth, Achim and Bamler, Richard},
  year = {2003},
  month = feb,
  volume = {57},
  pages = {241--262},
  issn = {0924-2716},
  doi = {10.1016/s0924-2716(02)00124-7},
  abstract = {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[degree sign]N and 57[degree sign]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.},
  journal = {ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing},
  keywords = {*imported-from-citeulike-INRMM,~INRMM-MiD:c-2028845,elevation,high-impact-publication,radar,remote-sensing,topography},
  lccn = {INRMM-MiD:c-2028845},
  number = {4}
}

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