Operating the X-band SAR interferometer of the SRTM

Author

Werner, Marian

Author_Institution

Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt DLR e.V., Wessling, Germany

Volume

6

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

2587

Abstract

The Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) is the first single pass SAR (synthetic aperture radar) interferometer in space; it has been flown on board the Space Shuttle in February 2000. The mission objective was to acquire a radar data set during this 11 day mission which allows one to generate a new consistent and more accurate global digital terrain model and topographic maps of all land surfaces between +60° and -56° latitudes. The operations concept and the gained experience from the successful mission is presented

Keywords

geodesy; geophysical techniques; remote sensing by radar; spaceborne radar; synthetic aperture radar; terrain mapping; topography (Earth); InSAR; SAR; SAR interferometer; SRTM; Shuttle Radar Topography Mission; X-band; geophysical measurement technique; global digital terrain model; land surface; radar remote sensing; single pass SAR; spaceborne radar; synthetic aperture radar; terrain mapping; topographic map; topography; Aerospace electronics; Control systems; Data analysis; Data engineering; Hardware; Performance analysis; Space missions; Space shuttles; Spaceborne radar; Synthetic aperture radar;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2000. Proceedings. IGARSS 2000. IEEE 2000 International

Conference_Location

Honolulu, HI

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6359-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2000.859649

Filename

859649