Synthetic Aperture RADAR (SAR) Remote Sensing Basics and Applications – Part 2

Software, Tools, Libraries, Utilities etc.	Detail
SAR data processing	SNAP – Sentinel Application Platform. Orfeo Toolbox (OTB) – Open Source processing of remote sensing images (github, Cookbook: SAR Processing, Guide) SARbian – free and open SAR operating system
Polarimetric and polarimetric interferometric SAR (PolSAR / PolInSAR)	PolSARPro – The ESA Polarimetric SAR Data Processing and Educational Tool
Interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR)	GMT5SAR – InSAR processing system based on GMT. (for developers) ISCE – InSAR Scientific Computing Environment. Doris – Delft object-oriented radar interferomtric software. Gamma – Gamma Remote Sensing SAR and Interferometry Software.
Multitemporal/time series InSAR analysis	GIAnT – Generic InSAR Analysis Toolbox. MintPy – Miami INsar Time-series software in PYthon. PyRate – A Python tool for Rate and Time-series Estimation SARPROZ – The SAR PROcessing tool by periZ StaMPS/MTI – Stanford Method for Persistent Scatterers – git-version
Performing Tropospheric Noise Corrections	PyAPS – Python based Atmospheric Phase Screen Estimation. TRAIN – Toolbox for Reducing Atmospheric InSAR Noise – git-version.
Geospatial and Post-processing Analysis of SAR data	ASF Map Ready – MapReady Remote Sensing Tool Kit GDAL – Geospatial Data Abstraction Library GMT – Generic Mapping Tools QGIS GRASS – Geographic Resources Analysis Support System),
Projects on Github related to SAR	Data discovery and download SSARA – Seamless SAR Archive project repository ArchiveTools – Scripts for downloading and searching data SentinelSat – Search and download Sentinel images from the command line or with the Python API. Software and Utilities ARIA-tools – Tools to manipulate (download, cropping, stitching, time-series preparation) ARIA products PyRAT – General purpose SAR postprocessing framework adore-doris RITSAR ISCE_utils s1tbx – part of SNAP PySAR ROI_PAC-Sentinel1 insar_scripts RapidSAR gmtsar2stamps – Using GMTSAR as InSAR pre-processor for StaMPS pygmtsar – Python scripts for GMTSAR processing snap2stamps – Using SNAP as InSAR pre-processor for StaMPS ISCE stack2stamps – Using ISCE (src/contrib/timeseries/stack2stamps) as InSAR pre-processor for StaMPS GIPhT – General Inversion of Phase Technique RaySAR – 3D Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Simulator kite – Tectonic displacement modelling, quadtree subsampling and covariance analysis System configuration and installation insar_instal – Set of scripts that automatically install InSAR softwares isce_notes – Installation notes of ISCE software oldLinuxSetup – Setup python environment using anaconda on old linux machines ElCaptanSetup – Instructions for setting up an OS X El Capitan machine from scratch
Image Processing Libraries	OpenCV Scikit-Image Insight Segmentation and Registration Toolkit (ITK) – open-source, cross-platform system that provides developers with an extensive suite of software tools for image analysis Spectral Python (SPy) – Python module for processing hyperspectral image data
Data Resources	ASF – Alaska Satellite Facility ARIA-products – Standard products of the Advanced Rapid Imaging and Analysis (ARIA) Project for Natural Hazards DLR Geohazards Supersites – TerraSAR-X Geohazard Supersites EO Data Gateway ESA Virtual Archive 4 – Geohazard Supersites and Natural Laboratories Virtual Archive SciHub – Sentinel Scientific Data Hub UNAVCO/WInSAR – WInSAR consortium and GeoEarthScope Data
Forums	ISCE Forum MintPy Forum SNAP Forum StaMPS/MAINSAR Forum TRAIN Forum
Training, Tutorials, Classes & Other Online Educational Material	SAREDU EO-College UNAVCO Short Courses Online Class on Microwave Remote Sensing How to do InSAR on ESA’s Geohazard Exploitation Platform ASF Data Recipes
Other	CEOS Database WInSAR Supersites Summary of Available SAR Calibration Targets
Credit	RADARCODE

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