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	TISAR DEM/ORI Production and Service for the ERS SAR and ENVISAT ASAR systems The TISAR project aims at providing a fully integrated semi-automatic radar DEM production line using radargrammetry and interferometry. Both techniques are already fully operational at SYNOPTICS (radargrammetric DEM production) and SARMAP (InSAR DEM production).
	Project References
Name	TISAR
Title	DEM/ORI Production and Service for the ERS SAR and ENVISAT ASAR systems
Programme	DUP (Data User Programme)
Theme	Land
Cost	€250k
Type	Service Demonstration
Status	Completed (14/09/2001 – 02/2004)
Sensors	ENVISAT : ASAR ERS-1/2 : SAR
	Project Description
Objectives	The TISAR project aimed at providing a fully integrated semi-automatic radar DEM production line using radargrammetry and interferometry. The project objectives have been realised in three phases: Service and product definition stage Up-grade of existing stereo and InSAR processing capability to ingest and process Envisat ASAR InSAR and stereo data, production of on-line user interface for DEM quotation, test of processing up-grade capability and production stereo/InSAR DEMs for service case areas Service assessment – in conjunction with the end-users, the up-graded service capability has been assessed using high quality reference DEMs. A terrain dependent assessment of vertical accuracies that can be expected stereo and InSAR DEMs

Results	Final report (3Mb PDF)

	Project Consortium
Prime contractor	MICROSOFT Netherlands : MICROSOFT Netherlands
Subcontractors	GEOSERVE : Geoserve BV (Data Provider) SARMAP : SARMAP S.A.
	User Partnership
Users	ICC : Cartographic Institute of Catalonia (ICC) Infoterra : Infoterra GmbH Kalimanis Group : Kalimanis Group - PT Alas Helau MiningIndo : PT - MiningIndo Shell : Shell International Exploration and Production BV
	Contact Points
Project Manager	Paul van der Voet Microsoft Netherlands P.O. Box 117 6700 AC Wageningen The Netherlands Tel: +31(0)317-421221 Fax: +31(0)317-416146 Email: paul.vandervoet@vexcel.com
Technical Officer	Frank Martin Seifert European Space Agency ESRIN D/EOP-SEP via Galileo Galilei I-00044 Frascati (Roma) ITALY Tel.: +39 06-941.80560 Fax: +39 06-941.80552 Email: frank.martin.seifert@esa.int

TISAR

DEM/ORI Production and Service for the ERS SAR and ENVISAT ASAR systems

The TISAR project aims at providing a fully integrated semi-automatic radar DEM production line using radargrammetry and interferometry. Both techniques are already fully operational at SYNOPTICS (radargrammetric DEM production) and SARMAP (InSAR DEM production).