SHUTTLE RADAR TOPOGRAPHY MISSION(SRTM)

UNCLASSIFIED

SRTM Mission Overview

Launch

Current manifest STS-99, 13 Jan 00

11-day flight

SRL Heritage

antenna & support structure,

RFelectronics

, command/telemetry system, power

distribution system, digital data system, recorders,

target tracker, attitude gyros

Same - Pass Interferometry

225 km

interferometric

swaths map

all landmass between ± 60° latitude

at least twice = 80% land surface

New SRTM Hardware

: Canister & mast, secondary

antenna, star tracker, GPS

Data recorded

on-board

~ 6.5

TBytes

C-band

~ 3.3

TBytes

X-band

Data returned

with

Shuttle to Ground Data

Processing Facility at JPL

JPL Processing

JPL Deliverables

DTED 2 in “Continent” size groups

Orthorectified Image Mosaics

Terrain Height Error Data

NIMA Finishing

Water bodies, data validation, verification,

product generation and distribution

to users

SHUTTLE RADAR TOPOGRAPHY MISSION (SRTM)