Applications
Applications of the high-resolution TerraSAR-X radar imagery include:
- Topographic Mapping: 2D and 3D, in scales down to 1:25,000, map updates
- Surface Movement: Based on timeseries acquired by TerraSAR-X over the same area surface displacements caused by subsurface mining, oil-/gas extraction, infrastructure construction, excavations, or underground engineering can be visualised.
- Change Detection: for the monitoring of large-scale construction projects, infrastructure networks, monitoring and documentation of changes and developments
- Land Cover and Land Use Mapping: accurate and up-to-date land cover / land use informations, also from places, where it is difficult to get informations with using other technologies because of permanent cloud cover
- Defence and Security Applications: Applications include effective mission planning, the quick assessment of natural or manmade disasters or border control through detection of paths (changes), fences and moving objects
- Rapid Emergency Response: due to its rapid revisit time TerraSAR-X is a reliable source of information in case of natural or man-made disasters (e.g. earth quakes, floods, military conflicts etc.) providing reliable information for disaster management and response allowing the recognition and assessment of damages to populated areas and traffic infrastructure, the identification of focus areas, and an efficient coordination of rescue actions.
- Environmental applications: e.g. forest monitoring, flood monitoring, water quality applications
- Further applications currently under evaluation: Traffic Monitoring, Maritime applications, vegetation monitoring
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