This work presents a methodology for the refinement of 90m digital elevation model (DEM) of Shuttle Radar Topographic Mission (SRTM) data. The SRTM DEM is publicly available through the Seamless Data Distribution System (SDDS) at two resolutions: 30m for the United States, and 90m for the areas between 60N and 56S of latitude including the US. The selected test areas stretch eastwest from gentl...

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...

Shuttle Radar Topographic Mission (SRTM) and ASTER Global Digital Elevation Model (GDEM) provide topographic data in a global scale which are freely available for users. The potential use of these datasets for many forestry applications is highly depending on the accuracy of the datasets. In this study, we evaluated the accuracy of SRTM and ASTER GDEM version 2 with high accuracy topographic da...

A series of studies have focused on backwards functions in conversation, especially to explore the distinction among backchannel/acknowledgement, accept and yes-answer, while for accept and assessment/appreciation, little attention has been obtained. This paper describes a quantitative investigation into two dialogue acts accept and assessment/appreciation, exhibiting their similarities and dif...

This article compares one-dimensional and multi-dimensional dialogue act tagsets used for automatic labeling of utterances. The influence of tagset dimensionality on tagging accuracy is first discussed theoretically, then based on empirical data from human and automatic annotations of large scale resources, using four existing tagsets: DAMSL, SWBD-DAMSL, ICSI-MRDA and MALTUS. The Dominant Funct...

Digital elevation models (DEM) are of fundamental importance for remote sensing. With a DEM the three-dimensional positioning, requiring a stereo model can be reduced to a two-dimensional solution just based on a single image. With the free of charge availability of the SRTM-height models, covering the land area from 56° southern up to 60.25° northern latitude a nearly world wide coverage is gi...

The Shuttle Radar Topographic Mission (SRTM) digital elevation data provides near-global coverage at about 90 m resolution and in much of the world is now the best available topographic data. Its application for quantitative analysis is limited by random noise and systematic offsets due to vegetation. This paper describes a multiscale Kalman smoothing algorithm for removing vegetation effects a...

In 2011 the National Institute of Standard and Technology (NIST) released a draft of special publication 800155. This document provides a more detailed description than the Trusted Platform Module (TPM) PC client specification for content that should be measured in the BIOS to provide an adequate Static Root of Trust for Measurement (SRTM). In this paper we look at the implementation of the SRT...

The aim of this study was to determine whether forest clear-cuts during 2000–2011 could be detected as a decrease in surface height by combining Digital Surface Models (DSMs) from the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) and Tandem-X, and to evaluate the performance of this method using SRTM Xand C-band data as references representing the heights before logging. The study area was located in...

The Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM), scheduled for an 11 day Space Shuttle flight in 1999, will use an Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (IFSAR) instrument to produce a near-global digital elevation map of the earth’s land surface with 16 m absolute vertical height accuracy at 30 meter postings. SRTM will achieve the required interferometric baseline by extending a receive-only r...