학술논문

The approach for combining dem acquisitions for the TanDEM-X dem mosaic
Document Type
Conference
Source
2013 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium - IGARSS Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2013 IEEE International. :2970-2973 Jul, 2013
Subject
Fields, Waves and Electromagnetics
Reliability
Synthetic aperture radar
Remote sensing
Companies
Abstracts
Noise level
Digital elevation models
TanDEM-X
InSAR
mosaicking
DEM
Language
ISSN
2153-6996
2153-7003
Abstract
For the global TanDEM-X DEM the whole world will be acquired by at least two coverages. Thereby on the one hand phase unwrapping errors are reduced by applying the dual-baseline method and on the other hand a low noise level is ensured even for difficult areas like forests and steep terrain. During DEM mosaicking, the single interferometric DEMs are merged together. This paper focuses on the combination of heights in overlapping areas with significant height differences. The challenge here is to choose the most reliable height value. The improvement applying this strategy in contrast to simple averaging and the general benefit of using more than one acquisition is shown by means of some example mosaics.