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Photogrammetrie und Fernerkundung

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Die innovative Radarmission TanDEM-X (TerraSAR-X add-on for Digital Elevation Measurements) eröffnet eine neue Ära in der satellitengestützten Radarfernerkundung. Die TerraSAR-X Mission wurde 2010 um einen weiteren, zum TerraSAR-X (TSX) baugleichen Satelliten, TanDEM-X (TDX) erweitert. Dieser fliegt mit TSX in enger Formation, wodurch das erste hochpräzise Radar-Interferometer im Weltall entsteht, das die Aufnahme von Interferogrammen mit flexibler Basisliniengeometrie ermöglicht, die nicht durch temporale Dekorrelation oder atmosphärische Störungen beeinflusst sind. Primäres Ziel ist die Erzeugung eines globalen Digitalen Höhenmodells (engl. digital elevation model, DEM) mit bisher unerreichter Genauigkeit (2 m relative Höhengenauigkeit bei 12 m horizontaler Abtastung). Während die Datenaufnahme für die DEM-Erstellung weitgehend abgeschlossen ist, läuft die Prozessierung des globalen DEMs bis Mitte 2016. Zusätzlich zum globalen DEM wurden sekundäre Missionsziele basierend auf Interferometrie in Flugrichtung (engl.: Along-Track Interferometry) und neuartigen bistatischen und multistatischen SAR-Techniken definiert, die im Rahmen einer dedizierten wissenschaftlichen Phase umgesetzt werden.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Man spricht von Along-Track-Interferometrie für zeitliche Abstände in der Größenordnung von Millisekunden bis Stunden und von differentieller Interferometrie für Abstände von Tagen bis Jahren.

  2. 2.

    NASA-Mission mit einem LIDAR-Altimeter (GLAS).

  3. 3.

    SRTM liefert Werte für den absoluten Höhenvergleich innerhalb von ±  60∘ geografischer Breite und ICESat außerhalb dieses Bereichs.

  4. 4.

    Phasenabwicklung (engl.: Phase Unwrapping) bezeichnet den Verarbeitungsschritt zur Lösung der 2π Phasenmehrdeutigkeit.

  5. 5.

    Halbtransparente Volumenstreuer (engl.: semi-transparent volume scatterers) sind Streuer in die Radarwellen eindringen, dabei gedämpft und teilweise zurückgestreut werden. Beispiele sind Vegetation, Eis und trockener Boden.

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    Manfred Zink, Markus Bachmann, Benjamin Bräutigam, Irena Hajnsek, Gerhard Krieger & Alberto Moreira

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Zink, M. et al. (2017). TanDEM-X. In: Heipke, C. (eds) Photogrammetrie und Fernerkundung. Springer Reference Naturwissenschaften . Springer Spektrum, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-47094-7_56

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