Deriving a high resolution DEM from ALOS PRISM data

Campbell, Andrew Charles (2009) Deriving a high resolution DEM from ALOS PRISM data. [USQ Project]

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Abstract

With the launch of Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's (JAXA) Advanced Land Observing Satellite (ALOS) carrying the Panchromatic Remote Sensing Instrument for Stereo Mapping (PRISM) a large scale high resolution solution for efficient and economically viable digital elevation models may have been found.
This research project endeavored to create a methodology for extracting a high resolution digital terrain model from JAXA's ALOS PRISM imagery using ITT's ENVI 4.6 software suite and in particular the DEM Extraction Module.
As ENVI 4.6 uses a RPC and GCP based approach to the extraction of DEMs GCPs were collected in the field using differential GPS techniques. The GCPs were then used to create an RPC model for the imagery from which the DEM could be extracted using ENVI 4.6's DEM Extraction Module.
It was found using this methodology that a useful DEM could not be extracted from ALOS PRISM data at this time.
In the future different results may be achieved if a purchased RPC data is used and ITT continues to test and refine ENVI‟s compatibility with ALOS PRISM data

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Item Type:	USQ Project
Refereed:	No
Item Status:	Live Archive
Faculty/School / Institute/Centre:	Historic - Faculty of Engineering and Surveying - Department of Surveying and Land Information (Up to 30 Jun 2013)
Date Deposited:	26 Jul 2010 04:39
Last Modified:	29 Jul 2010 02:11
Uncontrolled Keywords:	digital terrain model; GPS
Fields of Research (2008):	09 Engineering > 0909 Geomatic Engineering > 090903 Geospatial Information Systems
Fields of Research (2020):	40 ENGINEERING > 4013 Geomatic engineering > 401302 Geospatial information systems and geospatial data modelling
URI:	https://sear.unisq.edu.au/id/eprint/8524

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