The shuttle radar topography mission - A new class of digital elevation models acquired by spaceborne radar

ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 241-262

  Rabus, Bernhard ^a   Eineder, Michael ^a   Roth, Achim ^a   Bamler, Richard ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Digital elevation models; Interferometry; Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM); Synthetic aperture radar

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; INTERFEROMETRY;

SHUTTLE RADAR TOPOGRAPHY MISSION (SRTM);

RADAR;

DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; INTERFEROMETRY; REMOTE SENSING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 0037319812     PISSN: 09242716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0924-2716(02)00124-7     Document Type: Article

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