XXII ISPRS Congress 2012: Technical Commission VII

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Title:: XXII ISPRS Congress 2012

Sub title:: Melbourne, Australia, 25 August-1 September 2012

Year of publication:: 2013

Place of publication:: Red Hook, NY

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Additional Notes:: Kongress-Thema: Imaging a sustainable future

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Title:: Technical Commission VII

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Year of publication:: 2013

Place of publication:: Red Hook, NY

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Title:: SOURCES OF ARTEFACTS IN SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR INTERFEROMETRY DATA SETS K. Becek, A. Borkowski

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International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, Volume XXXIX-B7, 2012 XXII ISPRS Congress, 25 August — 01 September 2012, Melbourne, Australia SOURCES OF ARTEFACTS IN SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR INTERFEROMETRY DATA SETS K. Becek ® *, A. Borkowski" ® Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Brunei Darussalam — kazimierz.becek@ubd.edu.bn ® Wroclaw University of Environmental and Life Sciences, Poland — andrzej.borkowski@igig.up.wroc.pl Commission VII, WG VII/2 KEY WORDS: Geodesy, Estimation, Simplification, Landscape, DEM/DTM, Modelling ABSTRACT: In recent years, much attention has been devoted to digital elevation models (DEMs) produced using Synthetic Aperture Radar Interferometry (InSAR). This has been triggered by the relative novelty of the InNSAR method and its world-famous product—the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) DEM. However, much less attention, if at all, has been paid to sources of artefacts in SRTM. In this work, we focus not on the missing pixels (null pixels) due to shadows or the layover effect, but rather on outliers that were undetected by the SRTM validation process. The aim of this study is to identify some of the causes of the elevation outliers in SRTM. Such knowledge may be helpful to mitigate similar problems in future InSAR DEMSs, notably the ones currently being developed from data acquired by the TanDEM-X mission. We analysed many cross-sections derived from SRTM. These cross- sections were extracted over the elevation test areas, which are available from the Global Elevation Data Testing Facility (GEDTF) whose database contains about 8,500 runways with known vertical profiles. Whenever a significant discrepancy between the known runway profile and the SRTM cross-section was detected, a visual interpretation of the high-resolution satellite image was carried out to identify the objects causing the irregularities. A distance and a bearing from the outlier to the object were recorded. Moreover, we considered the SRTM look direction parameter. A comprehensive analysis of the acquired data allows us to establish that large metallic structures, such as hangars or car parking lots, are causing the outliers. Water areas or plain wet terrains may also cause an InSAR outlier. The look direction and the depression angle of the InSAR system in relation to the suspected objects influence the magnitude of the outliers. We hope that these findings will be helpful in designing the error detection routines of future InSAR or, in fact, any microwave aerial- or space-based survey. The presence of outliers in SRTM was first reported in Becek, K. (2008). Investigating error structure of shuttle radar topography mission elevation data product, Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L15403. 1. INTRODUCTION outliers in SRTM. The major aim of this work is to provide circumstantial evidence that the metallic structures and large A robust and fully automatic DEM extraction method that ^ and smooth surfaces are the cause of outliers in the SRTM. The would deliver elevations contaminated with only random errors objectives leading to this aim are: of known statistical characteristics has yet to be developed. This is valid for both stereoscopy-based and InSAR-based methods, a) to analyse SRTM data over large anthropogenic but less so for the LIDAR method. A possible timeframe for that structures, in this case airports, and to happen is impossible to estimate, assuming that it will b) to link the location of the outliers to the look angle happen at all. Meanwhile, DEMs such as ASTER GDEM and look direction of the SRTM data takes and the (Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and airports’ infrastructure. Reflection radiometer) and SRTM (Shuttle Radar Topography Mission) are provided with a certain number of pixels whose The Global Elevation Data Testing Facility (GEDTF) has been elevations deviate significantly from true elevations, or void or used to identify the location of airports and the required “no data” pixels. Void pixels may be easily isolated, and an reference elevation data. Our findings recommend that the appropriate mitigation procedure taken. These voids are formed original interferometry data sets be audited in an attempt to because of lack of correlation between corresponding parts of a quantify the mechanism responsible for the creation of the stereopair, or, in the case of InSAR, shadowing effect. A far outliers and working out a new interferometry data processing more difficult case is the detection and correction of outliers, procedure to suppress this type of error in InSAR data products. e.g. pixels having wrong elevations. Despite deployment of sophisticated algorithms designed to trap outliers, the above- 2. METHOD AND DATA mentioned DEMs still contain erroneous pixels. As far as we know, there are no published attempts addressing the issue of — 2.1 Error Structure of DEM outliers in the automatically derived DEMs. Rather, researchers are focused on assessments of systematic and/or random errors After Becek (2008), we adopt the following error structure of in DEMs. In this contribution we present our findings regarding the SRTM data: * Corresponding author. 29

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