A method to estimate long-wave height errors of SRTM C-band DEM

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 696-700

  Wendleder, A ^a   Felbier, A ^b   Wessel, B ^a   Huber, M ^a   Roth, A ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b BFFT Gesellschaft für Fahrzeugtechnik ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

digital elevation model (DEM); error compensation; Global Positioning System (GPS); Ice Cloud and land Elevation Satellite (ICESat); long wave error; Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM); spherical harmonics

Indexed keywords

ANEROID ALTIMETERS; ERRORS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; RADIO ALTIMETERS; SPHERES; TRACKING RADAR; WATER WAVES;

DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; GEOSCIENCE LASER ALTIMETER SYSTEM; GLOBAL POSITIONING; LAND ELEVATION SATELLITES; LEAST SQUARES ADJUSTMENTS; SELECTION CRITERIA; SHUTTLE RADAR TOPOGRAPHY MISSION; SPHERICAL HARMONICS;

SURVEYING;

EID: 84979493202     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2016.2538822     Document Type: Article

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