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In order to alleviate these two unfavorable factors, in this study, a novel InSAR DEM fusion method with guided filter is developed and assessed with multiple bistatic TanDEM-X InSAR data pairs of different normal baselines acquired from different orbits. Unlike the widely used fusion method based on pixel-by-pixel weighted average, the guided-filter-based method incorporates local spatial context information into the fusion and can thus effectively alleviate the noise effect and automatically fill in data voids. As a result of the local edge-preserving capability of the guided filter, the proposed fusion method can preserve terrain details by maintaining gradient consistency and introducing terrain features as guidance image. Furthermore, the proposed fusion method is computationally efficient owing to the linear time complexity of guided filter. The experimental results show that the fused DEM with guided filter can depict terrain details well and smooth the \u201csalt-and-pepper\u201d noise and fill in almost all of the data voids. The root mean square error (RMSE) of the fused InSAR DEM with guided filter is lower than those of the weighted average fused InSAR DEM and the TanDEM-X DEM released by the German Aerospace Center (DLR), thus validating the effectiveness of the fusion method proposed in this study.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs10101511","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2018,9,21]],"date-time":"2018-09-21T11:00:25Z","timestamp":1537527625000},"page":"1511","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":12,"title":["Fusion of Multi-Baseline and Multi-Orbit InSAR DEMs with Terrain Feature-Guided Filter"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"10","author":[{"given":"Yuting","family":"Dong","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Baobao","family":"Liu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Remote Sensing and Information Engineering, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5384-7630","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Lu","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Mingsheng","family":"Liao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-9039-2789","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Ji","family":"Zhao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Computer Science, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, China"},{"name":"Hubei Key Laboratory of Intelligent Geo-Information Processing, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2018,9,21]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"587","DOI":"10.1007\/s00190-014-0708-x","article-title":"Fusion of high-resolution DEMs derived from COSMO-SkyMed and TerraSAR-X InSAR datasets","volume":"88","author":"Jiang","year":"2014","journal-title":"J. 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