Physics
Scientific paper
Aug 2008
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2008georl..3515403b&link_type=abstract
Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 35, Issue 15, CiteID L15403
Physics
Geodesy And Gravity: Space Geodetic Surveys, Geodesy And Gravity: Instruments And Techniques, Radio Science: Remote Sensing, Radio Science: Interferometry (1207, 1209, 1242), Tectonophysics: General Or Miscellaneous
Scientific paper
An attempt was made to experimentally assess the instrumental component of error of the C-band SRTM (SRTM). This was achieved by comparing elevation data of 302 runways from airports all over the world with the shuttle radar topography mission data product (SRTM). It was found that the rms of the instrumental error is about +/-1.55 m. Modeling of the remaining SRTM error sources, including terrain relief and pixel size, shows that downsampling from 30 m to 90 m (1 to 3 arc-sec pixels) worsened SRTM vertical accuracy threefold. It is suspected that the proximity of large metallic objects is a source of large SRTM errors. The achieved error estimates allow a pixel-based accuracy assessment of the SRTM elevation data product to be constructed. Vegetation-induced errors were not considered in this work.
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