Abstract
A feasibility study is prepared for creating a top‐of‐canopy Digital Elevation Model (DEM) based on Radarsat data from the tropical rain forest regions of Malaysia. Through a case study, the accuracy of the generated DEM is verified, showing reasonable accuracy.
Acknowledgments
This work was supported by the National Key Developing Program for Basic Sciences of China (no. 2006CB701302), the Foundation of the Key Lab of Resource Environment and GIS of Beijing (no.2004GIS1‐4) and the Macres Airborne Remote Sensing (MARS) Programme. We are greatly indebted to the Malaysian Centre for Remote Sensing (MACRES) and Technology Park Malaysia (TPM) for providing valuable data for this study.