Sefercik, Umut G.; Schunert, Alexander; Soergel, Uwe; Watanabe, Kinichiro: Validation of DEMs derived from high resolution sar data: a case study on barcelona. In: ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences I-7 (2012), Nr. 1, S. 49-54. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5194/isprsannals-i-7-49-2012
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In recent years, Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data have been widely used for scientific applications and several SAR missions were realized. The active sensor principle and the signal wavelength in the order of centimeters provide all-day and all-weather capabilities, respectively. The modern German TerraSAR-X (TSX) satellite provides high spatial resolution down to one meter. Based on such data SAR Interferometry may yield high quality digital surface models (DSMs), which includes points located on 3d objects such as vegetation, forest, and elevated man-made structures. By removing these points, digital elevation model (DEM) representing the bare ground of Earth is obtained. The primary objective of this paper is the validation of DEMs obtained from TSX SAR data covering Barcelona area, Spain, in the framework of a scientific project conducted by ISPRS Working Group VII/2 "SAR Interferometry" that aims the evaluation of DEM derived from data of modern SAR satellite sensors. Towards this purpose, a DSM was generated with 10 m grid spacing using TSX StripMap mode SAR data and converted to a DEM by filtering. The accuracy results have been presented referring the comparison with a more accurate (10 cm–1 m) digital terrain model (DTM) derived from large scale photogrammetry. The results showed that the TSX DEM is quite coherent with the topography and the accuracy is in between ±8–10 m. As another application, the persistent scatterer interferometry (PSI) was conducted using TSX data and the outcomes were compared with a 3d city model available in Google Earth, which is known to be very precise because it is based on LIDAR data. The results showed that PSI outcomes are quite coherent with reference data and the RMSZ of differences is around 2.5 m. | |
License of this version: | CC BY 3.0 Unported |
Document Type: | Article |
Publishing status: | publishedVersion |
Issue Date: | 2012 |
Appears in Collections: | Fakultät für Bauingenieurwesen und Geodäsie |
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