Operating the X-band SAR Interferometer of the SRTM

Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) is the first single pass SAR (synthetic aperture radar) interferometer in space it has been flown on board the Space Shuttle in February 2000. The mission objective was to acquire a radar data set during this 11 day mission which allows to generate a new consistent and more accurate global digital terrain model and topographic maps of all land surfaces between +60° and -56° latitudes. The operations concept and the gained experience from the successful mission is presented