TanDEM-X: Science activities

In this paper the status of the TanDEM-X science activities, the distribution of the digital elevation mode, the schedule for the science phase and first results obtained from this will be presented. The goal of the TanDEM-X mission is to provide a higher level product (the digital elevation model) and to serve the science community with basic interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar products (a pair of CoSSC´s). The focus in this paper will be given to the activities within the last Announcement of Opportunity´s for data distribution in terms of description of the science team and their research field of interest, the amount of data acquired and the first results obtained from the science team.