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Our study shows the possibility to generate topographic maps
using TerraSAR-X data, however, the geometric errors in
mountainous areas are large when insufficient DEMs are used.
Therefore, further analysis is required to evaluate the impact of
high resolution DEMs on the pixel location accuracy.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The authors are grateful to the German Aerospace Center
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for this study.
