TerraSAR-X value added image products

Author

Schmidt, Nadine ; Janoth, Juergen ; Raggam, Johannes ; Gutjahr, Karlheinz ; Wimmer, Andreas

Author_Institution

Infoterra GmbH, Immenstaad

fYear

2007

fDate

23-28 July 2007

Firstpage

3938

Lastpage

3941

Abstract

The space mission TerraSAR-X is the first German space project implemented under a Public Private Partnership (PPP). Cooperation partners are the German Aerospace Centre (DLR) and EADS Astrium GmbH. Within this construct, DLR will be responsible for the scientific use of the TerraSAR-X data, whereas commercial marketing will be undertaken exclusively by Infoterra GmbH, a wholly-owned EADS Astrium subsidiary. In a co-operation between Infoterra GmbH and Joanneum Research, Value Added products and processors have been developed for TerraSAR-X data. These products are mainly oriented at the area of interest or are mapping products which represent a higher level of image processing in terms of radiometric correction and orthorectification, mosaics, subsets and merges. In this paper, these products are described. Further, an insight into the automated and semi-automated production chain is provided.

Keywords

artificial satellites; geophysical equipment; geophysical signal processing; image processing; radar signal processing; remote sensing by radar; spaceborne radar; synthetic aperture radar; DLR; EADS Astrium GmbH; German Aerospace Centre; German space project; Infoterra GmbH; Joanneum Research; TerraSAR-X space mission; TerraSAR-X value added image products; image processing; mosaics; orthorectification; public-private partnership; radiometric correction; Ellipsoids; Production; Radar imaging; Radiometry; Satellite broadcasting; Space missions; Spaceborne radar; Synthetic aperture radar; Turing machines; Uninterruptible power systems; TerraSAR-X; X-band, high-resolution imagery; enhanced image products; geo-information products; radar remote sensing; spaceborne radar satellite; value adding;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2007. IGARSS 2007. IEEE International

Conference_Location

Barcelona

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1211-2

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1212-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2007.4423708

Filename

4423708