Personal Satellite Services. Second International ICST Confernce, PSATS 2010, Rome, Italy, February 2010 Revised Selected Papers

Research Article

Time Series Analysis of the Digital Elevation Model of Kuwait Derived from Synthetic Aperture Radar Interferometry

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-642-13618-4_30,
        author={K. Rao and Hala Al Jassar},
        title={Time Series Analysis of the Digital Elevation Model of Kuwait Derived from Synthetic Aperture Radar Interferometry},
        proceedings={Personal Satellite Services. Second International ICST Confernce, PSATS 2010, Rome, Italy, February 2010 Revised Selected Papers},
        proceedings_a={PSATS},
        year={2012},
        month={5},
        keywords={Digital Elevation Model SAR Interferometry phases penetration depth},
        doi={10.1007/978-3-642-13618-4_30}
    }
    
  • K. Rao
    Hala Al Jassar
    Year: 2012
    Time Series Analysis of the Digital Elevation Model of Kuwait Derived from Synthetic Aperture Radar Interferometry
    PSATS
    Springer
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-13618-4_30
K. Rao1,*, Hala Al Jassar1,*
  • 1: Kuwait University
*Contact email: ksrao@kuc01.kuniv.edu.kw, hala@kuc01.kuniv.edu.kw

Abstract

The digital elevation model derived from SAR Interferometry is prone to atmospheric, penetration into soil medium, system noise and decorrelation errors. Eight ASAR images are selected for this study which have unique data set forming 7 InSAR pairs with single master image. It is expected that all the DEMs should have the same elevation values spatially with in the noise limits. However, they differ very much with one another beyond the noise levels indicating the effects of atmosphere and other disturbances. The 7 DEMs are compared with the DEM of SRTM for the estimation of errors. The spatial and temporal distribution of errors in DEM are analyzed by considering several case studies.