TanDEM-X: The 4D Mission Phase for Earth Surface Dynamics: Science activities highlights and new data products after 15 years of bistatic operations
The main goal of the TerraSAR-X Add-On for Digital Elevation Measurements (TanDEM-X) mission is the generation of a global digital elevation model (DEM) of unprecedented accuracy and coverage. The global TanDEM-X DEM product became available in 2016, surpassed all expectations, and became a reference for a wide range of Earth science, commercial, and geospatial applications. In addition, new information products, such as DEM change maps (DCMs), have been developed and are available to the geoscience and remote sensing community. Beyond the operational products, new science applications have been demonstrated and are summarized in this article, along with experimental data acquisitions. This article also aims to provide an overview of science activities with TanDEM-X data and science data acquisitions planned for the coming years.
Authors
- Matteo Nannini (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3523-9639)
- Thomas Busche
- Michele Martone (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4601-6599)
- Ulrich Steinbrecher (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3704-3886)
- Lanqing Huang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5180-7491)
- Alberto Moreira (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3436-9653)
- Thomas Fritz (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4410-8289)
- Paola Rizzoli (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9118-2732)
- Allan Bojarski (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6729-6665)
- Barbara Schweißhelm
- Marc Rodríguez-Cassolà
- Sahra Abdullahi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-4328-2843)
- Achim Roth (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8913-0930)
- Carolina González (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9340-1887)
- Maximilian Schandri (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0351-8564)
- Michelangelo Villano (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1769-6927)
- Alberto Alonso-González (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9059-7813)
- Birgit Wessel (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8673-2485)
- Gerhard Krieger (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4548-0285)
- Stefan V. Baumgartner (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8337-6825)
- Muriel Pinheiro (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5770-1738)
- Thomas Esch (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5868-9045)
- Irena Hajnsek (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0926-3283)
- Leena Warmedinger
- Konstantinos Papathanassiou (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5736-0379)
- José–Luis Bueso–Bello (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3464-2186)
- Kathrin Maier (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0706-0041)
- Josef Mittermayer (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7238-4240)
- Marie Lachaise (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1515-7540)
- Pietro Milillo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1171-3976)
- Rolf Scheiber (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6833-4897)
- Manfred Zink (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4308-5636)
- Pau Prats (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7583-2309)
- Shiyi Li (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4297-0374)
- Thomas Kraus (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9486-7371)
- Matteo Pardini (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2018-7514)
- Markus Bachmann (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6028-4303)
Institutions
- University of Stuttgart (DE)
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE)
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory (US)
- Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (DE)
- University of Würzburg (DE)
- Barcelona Supercomputing Center (ES)
- Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e. V. (DLR) (DE)
- Stuttgart Technical University of Applied Sciences (DE)
- Dienstleistungszentrum Ländlicher Raum (DE)
- Remote Sensing Solutions (Germany) (DE)
- Radar (United States) (US)
- European Space Research Institute (IT)
- University of Houston (US)
- University College London (GB)
- École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (CH)
- University of Maryland, College Park (US)
- Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (ES)
- Delft University of Technology (NL)
Publication Details
- Journal
- IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine
- Published
- 2025-03-14
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1109/mgrs.2024.3525403
- Citations
- 7
- Primary Topic
- Geophysics and Gravity Measurements
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 12.55