Links¶
GSDView Links¶
GSDView Open Edition¶
- GSDView Open Edition Home Page
- SourceForge Project Page
- Screenshots
- Downloads
- Trac Site on SourceForge.net
GSDView Pro Edition¶
- GSDView Pro Edition Home Page
- European Wireless 2009 paper
- EOMAG
- SWB on ESA technology forum (PDF)
- Europeran Technology Transfer Market
- Enterprise Europe Network
- ESOF 2010
- Wallonie Europe
- Swiss Support for European Business and Innovation
- Technology-market
Citations¶
- The GSDView page on ohloh.net provides some interesting code analysis and project coasts estimtion.
- Global Change Master Directory - NASA
- CEOS Land Surface Imaging Constellation Portal
- GRASS wiki
- Softpedia
- WareSeeker.com
- softbb.org
- http://www.soft4000.com/mac/download-gsdview-061-pre2-060-free/
- Master Branch
Open source resources¶
Tools¶
- OpenEV
- Application for viewing and analysing raster and vector geospatial data
- RAT
- RAdar Tools (or RAT) is an open source IDL SAR processing tool provided by the Technical University of Berlin. It provides various advanced SAR image processing tasks (SAR, PolSAR, PolInSAR & InSAR) and supports SAR SLCs and detected imagery of RADARSAT-1, JERS-1, ERS-1/2, and ALOS PALSAR.
- NEST
The Next ESA SAR Toolbox (NEST) is a user friendly open source toolbox for reading, post-processing, analysing and visualising the large archive of data (from Level 1) from ESA SAR missions including ERS-1 & 2, ENVISAT and in the future Sentinel-1.
In addition, NEST supports handling of products from third party missions including JERS-1, ALOS PALSAR, TerraSAR-X, Radarsat-1 & 2 and COSMO-Skymed.
- BEST
- Basic Envisat SAR Toolbox: the ESA collection of executable software tools that has been developed to facilitate the use of their SAR data
- BESTGUI
- BESTGUI is a Graphical User Interface (GUI) for BEST written in Python and GTK+. It allows you to easily generate parameters files for BEST and launch the processing from the GUI. BESTGUI aims to be an improved GUI front-end for UNIX platforms (it also run on WindowsTM), with a prettier look and feel and some useful additional features.
- ASF tools
Converting and geocoding tools of the Alaska Satellite Facility (ASF):
- MapReady
Software in the MapReady Remote Sensing Tool Kit accepts level 1 detected SAR data, single look complex SAR data, and optical data from ASF and some other facilities. It can terrain correct, geocode, and save to several common imagery formats including GeoTIFF.
Polarimetric decompositions can be applied to multi-pol SAR data. Other software included in the package are an image viewer, metadata viewer, a projection coordinate converter, and a variety of command line tools.
- Convert to Vector
- Convert to Vector is a small program made to transform point or scene information to various other formats that are compatible with external applications such as Google Earth, GIS software such as ArcGIS, text editors, and spreadsheets.
- SAR Training Processor
- The SAR Training Processor (STP) is a graphical tool written to assist in learning and teaching the flow of SAR processing.
- BEAM
- A toolbox for viewing, analyzing and processing of remote sensing data. Originally developed to facilitate the utilization of image data from Envisat’s optical instruments, BEAM now supports a growing number of other sensors such as MODIS, AVNIR, PRISM and CHRIS/Proba.
- PolSARPro
- The Polarimetric SAR Data Processing and Educational Tool aims to facilitate the accessibility and exploitation of multi-polarized SAR datasets including those from ESA Third Party Missions (ALOS PALSAR), Envisat ASAR Alternating Polarization mode products, RADARSAT-2 and TerraSAR-X.
- EnviView
- EnviView is a free application, that allows Envisat data users to open any Envisat data file, and examine its contents. It provides simple visualisation capabilities, and allows data to be exported to HDF for use in other software packages.
- EOLI-SA
- EOLi (Earth Observation Link) is the European Space Agency’s client for Earth Observation Catalogue and Ordering Services.
- Radarworks
- Matlab toolbox mainly intended for polarimetric SAR data processing.
- Opticks
- Opticks is an expandable remote sensing and imagery analysis software platform that is free and open source.
- GRASS
- Geographic Resources Analysis Support System
- GMT
- Generic Mapping Tools
InSAR tools¶
- DORIS
- Delft Object-oriented Radar Interferometric Software - InSAR/DInSAR processor.
- StaMPS
StaMPS stands for “Stanford Method for Persistent Scatterers”. Although the original version was developed at Stanford University, subsequent development has taken place at the University of Iceland and Delft University of Technology.
The package is no longer limited to persistent scatterers, but also incorporates a small baseline and a combined time series method.
- ADORE DORIS
- ADORE stands for Automated DORIS Environment. It is developed at the University of Miami Geodesy Group, to help researchers generate interferograms with ease. Just like DORIS it is an open source project and it comes with the same license. ADORE can not do anything that DORIS doesn’t, it’s only a simplified user interface.
- GIAnT
GIAnT is a suite of Python libraries and scripts that implement various published time-series InSAR algorithms in a common framework. GIAnT was developed for:
- Rapid generation of time-series products from interferogram
- Direct comparison of time-series InSAR products using different algorithms
- Cal-Val for time-series InSAR
The toolbox currently includes implementations of SBAS, N-SBAS and MInTS algorithms. The toolbox also includes support for using PyAPS to correct stratified troposphere phase components and to use GPS solutions if available to correct for orbital errors.
- PyAPS
PyAPS is a python module that estimates differential phase delay maps due to the stratified atmosphere for correcting radar interferograms. It is based on Delaypackage originally written by Romain Jolivet for estimating phase screens due to stratified atmosphere using ECMWF’s ERA Interim reanalysis.
PyAPS includes support for ERA Interim, NARR and MERRA weather models. PyAPS uses the humidity, pressure and temperature information from meteorological models to estimate the dry and wet components of the atmospheric delay.
- Varres
Varres is a variable resolution interferogram sampler that implements a curvature-based quadtree like resampler for reducing unwrapped interferometric phase to a smaller subset of observations. Using the reduced set of observations which represent the non-redundant observations in an unwrapped interferogram in modelling significantly decreases computation cost. Moroever, it can reduce bias due to uneven distribution of coherent samples in the unwrapped interferogram.
The original matlab package has been extended to include support for using a predefined map for resampling and estimation of an approximate covariance matrix for the samples.
- ROI_PAC
- Repeat Orbit Interferometry PACkage by Caltech/Jet Propulsion Laboratory, mainly for interferometric SAR processing.
- IDIOT
InSAR Deformation Inspection and Observation Tool (I.D.I.O.T.) is a software package for fully automatic generation of differential SAR interferograms from ENVISAT single look complex SAR data.
Its main purpose is to simplify as much as possible the generation of differential SAR interferograms, even for complete novices in SAR interferometry.
I.D.I.O.T. uses the freely available DEM of the SRTM mission to compensate for topography and can work with both the coarse header orbits or precise orbit information. All interferometric processing steps are implemented having maximum interferogram quality and precision in mind.
Commercial and freeware EO Software¶
- DIAPASON
- Differential Interferometric Automated Process Applied to Survey Of Nature, a general purpose DInSAR processor by CNES/Altamira Information
- Gamma Remote Sensing
- Complete software to support the entire processing of SAR data (SAR processing, InSAR, DInSAR, classification)
- InfoPACK
- Commercial high level library of routines for SAR image understanding, implementing specially developed algorithms optimised for SAR data.
- Photomod Radar
- Spaceborne SAR data processing
- SARscape
- Specialized ENVI extension for processing of SAR/InSAR data
- HighView
- HighView is based on GeoSage’s state-of-the-art and highly efficient image fusion algorithms that have been developed over the past few years and has been extensively tested with a variety of imagery sources. HighView is the unique image fusion tool for both advanced image-pansharpening and adaptive image stretching.
- ER Viewer
- ERDAS ER Viewer is a free, easy-to-use image viewer featuring interactive roaming and zooming with very large JPEG 2000 and ECW files. It can also read most other common file types. Installing ERDAS ER Viewer also lets you embed large geospatial images in your Microsoft Word documents.
- FreeView
- Geomatica FreeView is a flexible data viewing tool supporting over 100 raster and vector formats for loading, viewing, selection, and enhancement. FreeView is useful for any geospatial data viewing application, and is freely distributable.
Free EO Data¶
Optical and SAR imagery¶
- ERS
- Earthquakes (L’Aquila, Haiti and Sichuan)
- Sample ERS products can be found at Acres
- ENVISAT
- ENVISAT sample products
- Envisat auxiliary data
- Earthquakes (L’Aquila, Haiti and Sichuan)
- TerraSAR-X
- Sample TerraSAR-X products can be found at Infoterra (ditect ftp link)
- Radarsat1
- Sample Radarsat1 products can be found at Acres and on Ohio state university web site
- Radarsat2
- MDA Sample products
- Radarset2 sample products provided by ESA
- Radarset2 sample products for polarimetry
- ALOS
- Free ALOS sample products can found at ALOS Restec, Acres and ASF/ALOS
- Earthquakes (L’Aquila, Haiti and Sichuan)
- JERS
- Sample JERS products can be found at Acres
- ASTER
- Sample ASTER products can be found at Acres
- Landsat
- landsat.org provides free sample products and free orto-rectified data
- Sample Landsat5 and Landsat7 products can be found at Acres
- Polarimetry
- The PolSARpro sample dataset includes data of various airbone (AIRSAR, CONVAIR, EMISAR, ESAR, PISAR) and spacebone sensors (Radarsat2).
- Free UAVSAR data on ASF site
- NASA’s Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle Synthetic Aperture Radar or UAVSAR, is a reconfigurable, polarimetric L-band SAR sensor, specifically designed to acquire airborne repeat-track SAR data for differential interferometric measurements.
- LAADS Web
- MODIS level 1 and atmosphere data products.
- RapidEye
- RapidEye demo products. Standard Image Products (Level 1B or a Level 3A) of Griffith, New South Wales, Australia.
- WorldView
- WorldView-1 and WorldView-2 products are available on the DigitalGlobe demo products page.
- QuickBird
- QuickBird products are available on the DigitalGlobe demo products page.
- Spot
- Spot Spot3D and SpotMap products are available on the SpotImage demo products page.
- Formosat-2
- Formosat-2 products are available on the SpotImage demo products page.
- Kompsat-2
- Kompsat-2 products are available on the SpotImage demo products page.
- misc
Vector data¶
- GSHHS
Global Self-consistent, Hierarchical, High-resolution Shoreline Database is a high-resolution shoreline data set amalgamated from two data bases (the CIA world database WDBII, and the World Vector Shoreline database) in the public domain.
The shorelines are constructed entirely from hierarchically arranged closed polygons.
- NaturalEarth
- Public domain map dataset available at 1:10m, 1:50m, and 1:110 million scales.
DEM¶
- SRTM
- NASA High accuracy global DEM for topographic phase correction. Ditect lint to SRTM4 (90m) and SRTM3 in HGT format.
- GTOPO30
- USGS global low resolution (about 1 kilometer/half a mile horizontal)
- NOAA
- Global low resolution land DEM (about 1 kilometer/half a mile horizontal).
- GETASSE 3.0 DEM
- The Getasse 3.0 Digital Elevation Model for use with Amorgos consists of 288 files of 12 MB each. If you prefer to receive a copy of the DEM on DVD-ROM please contact Eohelp.
Other¶
- BlueMarble
- Blue Marble globe images.
