DIAPASON InSAR Sentinel-1 TOPSAR(IW,EW)¶

Sentinel-1 IW mode Interferogram generation with DIAPASON

DIAPASON InSAR Sentinel-1 TOPSAR(IW,EW)

DIAPASON is an InSAR tool suite developed by the French Space Agency (CNES) and maintained by TRE Altamira. This service performs an InSAR workflow on Sentinel-1 TOPSAR (IW,EW) data, producing interferograms, amplitude and coherence maps. To run this service, specify master and slave Sentinel-1 SLC images.

EO sources supported:

Sentinel-1 TOPSAR IW SLC

Output specifications

Interferometric Amplitude

Interferometric Coherence

Interferometric Phase

This tutorial will describe the processing of interferograms from pairs of Sentinel-1 IW images on the GEP.

Processor configuration¶

The user shall login on the GEP and in the “Processing Services” section , select the “DIAPASON InSAR Sentinel-1 TOPSAR” service from the “services” tab.

In the “EO data” menu select “Sentinel-1”.
Select an area on the map . In the “Search Terms” field , you may type “IW AND SLC NOT GRD” to search for the correct product type covering the area

Choose the image pair to be processed from the “Current search result” pane. Drag and Drop the image to be used as master into the “Sentinel-1 IW master” field, then select the slave image into the “Sentinel-1 IW slave” field.

The images shall be from the same track.

Note

slave and master can be picked up by using the following data package (alternatively to the search steps described): ChileTrack156

Set the polarization to process from the “polarization” drop-down list

The available polarizations for the images appear on the list from the “Current search result” pane. The selected polarization should be available on each of the two images.

Optionally you may choose to process an area of interest.

You may set this option in order to process an area smaller than the coverage of the two images by using a spatial filter from the left geo panel over the area. This will set the current area selected on the map as area of interest for the processing. When left blank , the area processed is the intersection between the two input images.

Set the Goldstein filter factor

The value for the Goldstein filter exponential factor shall be a floating point value between 0 and 1. Higher values will result in more filtering of the output interferogram phase.You may disable the Goldstein filter by setting the exponential factor to 0.

Set the Phase Unwrapping flag

To enable the phase unwrapping of the interferogram select “true” on the drop down list. By default , the phase unwrapping is disabled.

Running the job¶

Click on “Run Job” button from the processor configuration panel and wait for the job to complete.

View results on the map¶

Click on the Show results on map button after the job is completed.

After successful completion of the job , the following elements shall appear on the Results Table:

The interferometric amplitude.
The interferometric coherence.
The interferometric phase. This the output interferogram as an RGB image ready to be displayed on the Geobrowser map.
A zip file products.zip containing the DIAPASON geocoded results in geotiff format ,without additionnal processing.
An RGB image showing the unwrapped phase (in case the phase unwrapping processing was activated).

It is possible to download the result files , first by selecting them on the Results Table , a descriptive window about the file shall appear on the map . Clicking on the “download” button retrieves the file.