High resolution remote sensing Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data from TerraSAR-X/Tandem-X satellites are used to determine and monitor the sea surface in near real time and all weather and illumination conditions. The radar backscatter of the sea surface is determined by the sea surface roughness caused by the wind field and the sea state. These meteo parameters are modelled by the newly deve...

The TerraSAR-X launched on June 15, 2007 is one of the most state of the art satellite sensors. Its sophisticated feature is in demand for the application for map generation and monitoring purposes. One of the basic products of TerraSAR-X is the Enhanced Ellipsoid Corrected (EEC) orthorectified image. The product is projected to map geometry and terrain induced distortions are corrected using a...

With the launch of high resolution remote sensing satellites in different modalities like TerraSAR-X, WorldView-1 and Ikonos, the contribution of remote sensing for various applications has received a tremendous boost. Specifically, the combined analysis of high resolution SAR and optical imagery is of immense importance in monitoring and assessing catastrophes and natural disaster. Although, l...

Extraction of the flooded areas from synthetic aperture radar (SAR) and especially TerraSAR-X data is one of the most challenging tasks in the flood management and planning. SAR data due to its high spatial resolution and its capability of all weather conditions makes a proper choice for tropical countries. Texture is considered as an effective factor in distinguishing the classes especially in...

Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) and Differential Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (DInSAR) have shown numerous applications for subsidence monitoring. In the past 10 years, the Persistent Scatterer InSAR (PSI) and Small BAseline Subset (SBAS) approaches were developed to overcome the problem of decorrelation and atmospheric effects, which are common in interferograms. H...

Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) and Differential Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (DInSAR) have shown numerous applications for subsidence monitoring. In the past 10 years, the Persistent Scatterer InSAR (PSI) and Small BAseline Subset (SBAS) approaches were developed to overcome the problem of decorrelation and atmospheric effects, which are common in interferograms. H...

After a decade of successful TanDEM-X mission operations, the degradation satellite's battery capacity due to ageing has defined new challenge for DLRs operations team. In response, novel machine learning strategy been gradually deployed in Mission Planning System order optimize utilization. The objective this is twofold: 1) protecting operational state while 2) maximizing executed SAR acquisit...

In this paper different experiments conducted with the TerraSAR-X satellite for a demonstration of digital beamforming in elevation are shown for a spaceborne SAR system. Processing of the data and different options for digital beamforming are presented.