The Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) will be launched in January 2000. Its intention is the global topographic mapping of the Earth’ surface. The data will be acquired by the first space-born single-pass synthetic aperture radar (SAR) interferometer. Within eleven days this mission will map all continents between 60latitude. The resulting data set is unique in two respects. Firstly, the ...

Topography is a crucial surface characteristic in soil erosion modeling. Soil erosion studies use a digital elevation model (DEM) to derive the topographical characteristics of a study area. Majority of the times, a DEM is incorporated into erosion models as a given parameter and it is not tested as extensively as are the parameters related to soil, land-use and climate. This study compares ero...

Digital elevation model (DEM) generation from stereo images is an effective and economical method in topography mapping. This paper used the stereo pair methodology to generate the digital elevation model (DEM) from PRISM (Panchromatic Remote-Sensing Instrument Satellite) sensor which is onboard of ALOS (Advanced Land Observing Satellite). The pair of forward-backward is used as stereoscopic im...

A single-tissue compartment model with plasma input is the established method for analysing [(11)C]flumazenil ([(11)C]FMZ) studies. However, arterial cannulation and measurement of metabolites are time-consuming. Therefore, a reference tissue approach is appealing, but this approach has not been fully validated for [(11)C]FMZ. Dynamic [(11)C]FMZ positron emission tomography scans with arterial ...

BACKGROUND Preferred models for the pharmacokinetic analysis of [11C]flumazenil human studies have been previously established. However, direct translation of these models and settings to animal studies might be sub-optimal. Therefore, this study evaluates pharmacokinetic models for the quantification of [11C]flumazenil binding in the rat brain. Dynamic (60 min) [11C]flumazenil brain PET scans ...

Shuttle radar topographic mission (SRTM) has created an unparalleled data set of global elevations that is freely available for modeling and environmental applications. The global availability (almost 80% of the Earth surface) of SRTM data provides baseline information for many types of the worldwide research. The processed SRTM 90 m digital elevation model (DEM) for the entire globe was compil...

Western Australian Centre for Geodesy & The Institute for Geoscience Research, Curtin University of Technology, GPO Box U1987, Perth WA 6845, Australia, * Tel: (08) 9266 2218; Fax: (08) 9266 2703; Email: [email protected] 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 This study investigates the quality (in terms of elevation accuracy and systematic errors) of three recent publicly...

[1] Elevation data acquired from radar interferometry at C‐band from SRTM are used in data fusion techniques to estimate regional scale forest height and aboveground live biomass (AGLB) over the state of Maine. Two fusion techniques have been developed to perform post‐processing and parameter estimations from four data sets: 1 arc sec National Elevation Data (NED), SRTM derived elevation (30 m)...

There are two major freely available global digital elevation datasets, known as GTOPO30 and SRTM. To know the accuracies of those data in global scale, relative evaluation of these data and validation with global scale are performed. We compared elevation values of GTOPO30 and SRTM 30 arc second datasets globally and found there are places in the world with more than kilometres differences in ...