The interferometric SAR mission TanDEM-X started in 2010 and comprises the two twin satellites TerraSAR-X and TanDEM-X. Its primary objective is to generate a worldwide, consistent, and high-precision digital elevation model (DEM). Two global coverages have been completed until August 2013, and a very good performance has been verified for most of the land masses. However, some areas all around...

Simulations of gas-solid fluidized beds have been performed using a hybrid simulation method, which couples the discrete element method (DEM) for particle dynamics with the averaged two-fluid (TF) continuum equations for the gas phase. The coupling between the two phases is modeled using an interphase momentum transfer term. The results of the hybrid TF-DEM simulations are compared to experimen...

soil salinity has been a large problem in arid and semi arid regions. preparation of such maps is useful for natural resource managers. old methods of preparing such maps require a lot of time and cost. multi-spectral remotely sensed dates due to the broad vision and repeating of these imageries is suitable for provide saline soil maps. this investigation is conducted to provide saline soil map...

preparation of the topographic factor (ls) map in rusle model is a very tedious step because of the complicated effects of topography on soil loss. the objective of this study was to determine the suitable cell size of digital elevation model (dem) for computing ls factor by the method of moore and wilson (1992) in a 5326 ha area, northwest of tehran province. towards this end, cell sizes of 30...

Aerial photographs and satellite imagery have been evaluated manually by the operators for a long time for the extraction of the contour line and DEM data. Computer technology and digital image processing technologies have been developed and this development provides to perform these extraction processes automatically or semi-automatically. The aim of making the processes automatic is to increa...

digital elevation model (dem) is increasingly used these days as an effective tool to extract elevation data in quantitative environmental and land management studies. the improvement of sensors and land resource satellites has made it possible to generate dem from remotely sensed data. dems which are produced from these data are applied not only in the two dimensional (2d) but also in the thre...

Soil Salinity has been a large problem in arid and semi arid regions. Preparation of such maps is useful for Natural resource managers. Old methods of preparing such maps require a lot of time and cost. Multi-spectral remotely sensed dates due to the broad vision and repeating of these imageries is suitable for provide saline soil maps. This investigation is conducted to provide saline soil map...

This study is focused on the evaluation of a Digital Elevation Model (DEM) for Tokyo, Japan from data collected by the recently launched TerraSAR add-on for Digital Elevation Measurements (TanDEM-X), satellite of the German Aerospace Center (DLR). The aim of the TanDEM-X mission is to use Interferometric SAR techniques to generate a consistent high resolution global DEM dataset. In order to gen...