Two methods for derivation of surface ice velocity from SAR data are presented. They are applied to the RAMP Glacier in East Antarctica, which was imaged in repeat pass by TerraSAR-X in 2008 as part of the International Polar Year (IPY). Coregistration methods and an algorithm to improve the interferometric phase quality are described. The accuracy of speckle tracking and interferometric phasee...

The L’Aquila earthquake of magnitude 5.8 occurred on April 6, 2009 in the central Abruzzo region of Italy, causing widespread damage. More than 300 people lost their lives and property worth more than 2,500 million dollars was damaged. We analyze the high-resolution Synthetic Radar Aperture (SAR) imageries from TerraSAR-X along with high-resolution QuickBird optical images for the building dama...

Advanced SAR sensors such as the German TerraSAR-X instrument provide a variety of different image products. Typically, the products range from single look complex data to various detected data formats and interferometric products. Among the detected data formats, one can find stripmap and spotlight products derived from single and multi-polarization mode data and with different geometrical pro...