TerraSAR-X: Applications for Spaceborne High Resolution SAR Data
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This paper gives an overview of capabilities of TerraSAR-X and provides some first application results. The TerraSAR-X mission is based on a public-private-partnership agreement between the German Aerospace Centre DLR and EADS Astrium GmbH. It is the continuation of the scientifically and technologically successful radar missions X-SAR (1994) and SRTM (2000) and is designed for scientific and commercial applications. TerraSAR-X was launched on Friday the 15th of June 2007 from the Russian Cosmodrome in Baikonur (Kazakhstan). It continues to provide high quality imagery for numerous applications and for the establishment of an extended worldwide commercial EO-market. SpotLight, StripMap and ScanSAR are available acquisition modes and polarization diversity can be selected. Example results for mapping, digital elevation models, monitoring of tropical forest, CO2 storage, emergency response, and change detection are provided. Methods are discussed and an outlook for further work is given.
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