The shuttle radar topography mission

Reviews of Geophysics

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Farr, Tom G ^a   Rosen, Paul A ^a   Caro, Edward ^a   Crippen, Robert ^a   Duren, Riley ^a   Hensley, Scott ^a   Kobrick, Michael ^a   Paller, Mimi ^a   Rodriguez, Ernesto ^a   Roth, Ladislav ^a   Seal, David ^a   Shaffer, Scott ^a   Shimada, Joanne ^a   Umland, Jeffrey ^a   Werner, Marian ^b   Oskin, Michael ^c   Burbank, Douglas ^d   Alsdorf, Douglas E ^e  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; RADAR INTERFEROMETRY; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; TOPOGRAPHIC MAPPING;

EID: 34548235492     PISSN: 87551209     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005RG000183     Document Type: Article

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