Tom G. Farr

TL;DR: The Shuttle Radar Topography Mission produced the most complete, highest-resolution digital elevation model of the Earth, using dual radar antennas to acquire interferometric radar data, processed to digital topographic data at 1 arc sec resolution.

TL;DR: The most complete digital topographic map of Earth was made by the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) as discussed by the authors, which used a single-pass radar interferometer to produce a digital elevation model (DEM) of the Earth's land surface between about 60 deg north and 56 deg south latitude.

TL;DR: The most successful 11-day flight of the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) was completed on February 22, 2000 by the Space Shuttle Endeavour landing at Kennedy Space Center.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the various methods and parameters in common use for quantifying and reporting surface topographic roughness and suggest a method of standardizing the parameters that are computed and reported so that topographic data gathered by different workers using different field techniques can be directly and easily intercompared.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed several techniques to analyze polarimetric radar data from the NASA/JPL airborne SAR for Earth science applications, including determining the heterogeneity of scatterers with subregions, optimizing the return power from these areas, and identifying probable scattering mechanisms for each pixel in a radar image.