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https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-19-4747-2015
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-19-4747-2015
Research article
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03 Dec 2015
Research article |  | 03 Dec 2015

Water vapor mapping by fusing InSAR and GNSS remote sensing data and atmospheric simulations

F. Alshawaf, B. Fersch, S. Hinz, H. Kunstmann, M. Mayer, and F. J. Meyer

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Alshawaf, F., Fersch, B., Hinz, S., Kunstmann, H., Mayer, M., Thiele, A., Westerhaus, M., and Meyer, F.: Analysis of atmospheric signals in spaceborne InSAR – toward water vapor mapping based on multiple sources, in: Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2012 IEEE International, 1960–1963, 2012.
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This work aims at deriving high spatially resolved maps of atmospheric water vapor by the fusion data from Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR), Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS), and the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model. The data fusion approach exploits the redundant and complementary spatial properties of all data sets to provide more accurate and high-resolution maps of water vapor. The comparison with maps from MERIS shows rms values of less than 1 mm.
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