TanDEM-X: Mission Status and Science Activities
The paper provides an up-to-date overview of the German TanDEM-X satellite mission status and its ongoing science activities. The global digital elevation model (DEM) of TanDEM-X became available in 2016 and surpassed all expectations: It has 99.9% coverage, 12-m posting, absolute height accuracy of...
| Published in: | IGARSS 2022 - 2022 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium |
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| Main Authors: | , , , , , , |
| Format: | Conference Object |
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IEEE
2022
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| Online Access: | https://elib.dlr.de/192963/ https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9883051 |
| Summary: | The paper provides an up-to-date overview of the German TanDEM-X satellite mission status and its ongoing science activities. The global digital elevation model (DEM) of TanDEM-X became available in 2016 and surpassed all expectations: It has 99.9% coverage, 12-m posting, absolute height accuracy of approximately 1 m and a relative height error (standard deviation) of 0.8 m. This unique data set has been available since then for commercial and scientific applications. In addition, a low-resolution version of the global digital elevation model with 90-m posting has been released for free download for scientific applications. Since 2017 new interferometric acquisitions have been started with the goal to generate a global change layer which will register all the changes of the Earth topography occurred since the first acquisitions of TanDEM-X. The acquisition for the global change layer was completed by mid-2020. Since then a new science phase of TanDEM-X with a focus on interferometric acquisitions over forest, ice sheets and permafrost regions are ongoing. |
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