Journal
REMOTE SENSING
Volume 12, Issue 23, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/rs12233961
Keywords
synthetic aperture radar; digital elevation model; TanDEM-X; DEM editing
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The spaceborne mission TanDEM-X successfully acquired and processed a global Digital Elevation Model (DEM) from interferometric bistatic SAR data at X band. The product has been delivered in 2016 and is characterized by an unprecedented vertical accuracy. It is provided at 12 m, 30 m, and 90 m sampling and can be accessed by the scientific community via a standard announcement of opportunity process and the submission of a scientific proposal. The 90 m version is freely available for scientific purposes. The DEM is unedited, which means that it is the pure result of the interferometric SAR processing and subsequent mosaicking. Residual gaps, resulting, e.g., from unprocessable data, are still present and water surfaces appear noisy. This paper reports on the algorithms developed at DLR's Microwaves and Radar Institute for a fully automatic editing of the global TanDEM-X DEM comprising gap filling and water editing. The result is a new global gap-free DEM product at 30 m sampling, which can be used for a large variety of scientific applications. It also serves as a reference for processing the upcoming TanDEM-X Change DEM layer.
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