[1] Here we use Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite (ICESat)-derived elevations and surface characteristics to investigate the Malaspina Glacier of southern Alaska. Although there is significant elevation variability between ICESat tracks on this glacier, we were able to discern general patterns in surface elevation change by using a regional digital elevation model (DEM) as a reference sur...

The Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) will be launched in January 2000. Its intention is the global topographic mapping of the Earth’ surface. The data will be acquired by the first space-born single-pass synthetic aperture radar (SAR) interferometer. Within eleven days this mission will map all continents between 60latitude. The resulting data set is unique in two respects. Firstly, the ...

Digital Elevation Models (DEMs) including Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer-Global Digital Elevation Model (ASTER GDEM), Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM), and Global Multi-resolution Terrain Elevation Data 2010 (GMTED2010) are freely available for nearly the entire earth’s surface. DEMs that are usually subject to errors need to be evaluated using reference e...

The Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) was flown in February 2000 and collected the first ever high-resolution near-global digital elevation data. The final SRTM data have become widely available at 1 arc-second resolution for the United States and 3 arc-second resolution for other areas. This article reviews the background of the SRTM mission, the data quality characteristics of the SRTM ...

* Corresponding author. E-mail address: [email protected] (B. 1537-5110/$ – see front matter a 2008 IAgrE doi:10.1016/j.biosystemseng.2008.09.010 Digital Elevation Model (DEM) fusion was investigated for improving the overall accuracy of DEMs. The approach was applied to two public domain products: Shuttle Radar Topographic Mission (SRTM) DEM and Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Refl...

In this research, Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (IFSAR) and Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) data are used to delineate a portion of the Saint Louis Bay watershed (Mississippi). In addition to these two digital elevation databases, the National Elevation Data (NED) and the United States Geological Service’ Digital Elevation Model (USGS-DEM) are also used for delineation. Resul...

The Shuttle Radar Topography Mission SRTM produced the first global digital elevation model (DEM) data set of the world’s topography in the year 2000. The data set covers regions between ±60 degrees latitude with a resolution of 30 meters. The 90 % height accuracy in these regions is on the range of 6 meters, limited by the baseline length, the metrology and the instrument noise. In mountainous...

[1] The Shuttle Radar Topography Mission produced the most complete, highest-resolution digital elevation model of the Earth. The project was a joint endeavor of NASA, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, and the German and Italian Space Agencies and flew in February 2000. It used dual radar antennas to acquire interferometric radar data, processed to digital topographic data at 1 arc s...

We present in this paper a polynomial fitting method applicable to segments of footprints measured by the Geoscience Laser Altimeter System (GLAS) to estimate glacier thickness change. Our modification makes the method applicable to complex topography, such as a large mountain glacier. After a full analysis of the planar fitting method to characterize errors of estimates due to complex topograp...

PU (phase unwrapping) is the key step and important problem in DEM (digital elevation model) extraction and the measurement of surface deformation of InSAR (Interferometric synthetic aperture radar). The CKFPUA (conventional Kalman filter phase unwrapping algorithm) can obtain reliable results in the flat terrain areas, but it caused error transmission not making the accurate inversion of surfa...