Flight planning for stereo radar mapping
Abstract
Pairs of terrain-imaging radar images may be viewed and measured stereoscopically in order to obtain elevation data for topographic mapping. An analysis of the technical and economic considerations in selecting flight parameters for mapping projects is presented. Both parallel and right-angle flightpaths are considered. The results indicate that systems as presently constituted have the potential to produce data adequate for original medium-scale mapping, and that the right-angle mode is superior to the parallel-flightpath mode under the assumptions made if psychophysical difficulties in image fusion are not encountered.
- Publication:
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Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing
- Pub Date:
- September 1975
- Bibcode:
- 1975PgERS..41.1131G
- Keywords:
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- Flight Paths;
- Mapping;
- Radar Imagery;
- Radar Maps;
- Stereoscopy;
- Terrain Analysis;
- Data Acquisition;
- Error Analysis;
- Radar Range;
- Radarscopes;
- Topography;
- Vertical Flight;
- Instrumentation and Photography