Global LoD-1 Building Model From TanDEM-X Data
Conference: EUSAR 2022 - 14th European Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar
07/25/2022 - 07/27/2022 at Leipzig, Germany
Proceedings: EUSAR 2022
Pages: 4Language: englishTyp: PDF
Authors:
Zhu, Xiao Xiang; Wang, Yuanyuan (Data Science in Earth Observation, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany & Remote Sensing Technology Institute, German Aerospace Center, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany)
Shi, Yilei (Chair of Remote Sensing Technology, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany)
Lachaise, Marie; Montazeri, Sina; Jancauskas, Vytautas; Kuzu, Ridvan (Remote Sensing Technology Institute, German Aerospace Center, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany)
Abstract:
TanDEM-X mission delivers a global digital elevation model of high quality (12 m posting) close to the HRTI-3 standard. However, when it comes to urban areas, layover effect caused by the side-looking nature of the radar satellites handicaps the use of classical multi-baseline phase unwrapping and TanDEM-X data alone for a precise 3D reconstruction. This calls for advanced SAR image processing methods and additional data. This paper demonstrates our effort of creating the global Level of Detail 1 (LoD-1) urban model using primarily the TanDEM-X data. This global building model dataset will be made open access to the community.