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Do you need to produce satellite interferometry results for your work or study? Or should you find the way to process terabytes of radar data on your common laptop? Maybe you aren’t confident about the installation and usage of the required software. Fortunately, there is the next generation of satellite interferometry products available for you. Beginners can build the results easily and advanced users might work on huge datasets. Open Source software PyGMTSAR is available on GitHub for developers and on DockerHub for advanced users and on Google Colab for everyone. This is the cloud-ready product, and it works the same as do you run it locally on your old laptop as on powerful cloud servers.<\/p>\n

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About<\/h2>\n

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PyGMTSAR provides an interactive processing environment with annotations and quality plots and progress indicators for the complete processing pipeline. There is no software installation hassle or complex steps to produce the results, but just live annotated examples in your web browser are available with a single click. When it already works, you are free to change the source datasets and processing parameters and see all the results for your own tasks.
In case it amazed you how all of that is possible, visit the project documentation page https:\/\/mobigroup.github.io\/gmtsar\/<\/a> Here are lots of modern algorithms and programming techniques combined to make it really easy to use. Or just continue to read to try it immediately. Software invented to make our work more productive and it should not distract us from our work and PyGMTSAR follows the way.<\/p>\n

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The Story Behind Product<\/h2>\n

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I\u2019m radio physics and I have master\u2019s degree and awards for research in fundamental and application interferometry and holography and science and industrial software developer with 20+ years experience. Some years ago I had the time to try satellite interferometry for a slight task. And it really frustrated me how hard satellite interferometry processing is using existing software! I found all the software incredibly overcomplicated and counter-intuitive. Anyway, Open Source GMTSAR<\/a> satellite interferometry package was the best one for me for lots of reasons. I had explained some of my ideas to GMTSAR developers team<\/a> but they were not interested in redesigning the software completely and rewrite all the codes. Well, that\u2019s so hard and possibly I could not highlight all the advantages of doing it. Alright, there is just one way to prove all my ideas and so I have been writing a new one satellite interferometry product. When it is possible, PyGMTSAR uses some of the GMTSAR binary tools under the hood, wrapping all of them for interactive and easy use. For now the new software is user-friendly, and it works faster and allows to process huge datasets on a common hardware.<\/p>\n

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How To Start with PyGMTSAR<\/h2>\n

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In case you are not a software developer or engineer, that is not your work to install and configure software products. PyGMTSAR does not require any installation and you are free to start your work right now. And that is more than a cloud only software because it is usable on your computer offline too. Below, the two ways explained how to run PyGMTSAR in a single click in your web browser online and how to download and run it on your computer.<\/p>\n

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One-click Live Examples Online<\/h2>\n

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The fastest way to start your satellite interferometry journey is to click on the links below to open the full functional InSAR pipeline on your web browser page. Every example is complete and self documented and provides rich plots and maps. Use the examples as templates for your own tasks, replacing the used radar scenes and processing parameters following your needs.<\/p>\n

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\"Open<\/a> Live example «ASF Downloading 2017 Iran\u2013Iraq Earthquake vs GMTSAR GAMMA SNAP Co-Seismic Interferogram» downloads Sentinel-1 Scenes from Alaska Satellite Facility (ASF) and compares the interferogram and LOS displacement to GMTSAR, SNAP and GAMMA Software.<\/p>\n

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\"Open<\/a> Live example «S1A 2016 Kumamoto Earthquake Co-Seismic Interferogram vs ESA Sentinel 1 Toolbox on Alaska Satellite Facility» is a single sub-swath processing with landmask applied to interferogram, unwrapped phase, and LOS, east-west, vertical displacement results.<\/p>\n



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\"Open<\/a> Live example «S1AB 2021 Crete Earthquake Co-Seismic Interferogram vs Centre of EO Research & Satellite Remote Sensing, Greece Report» is a single cropped sub-swath processing with landmask applied to interferogram, unwrapped phase, and LOS, east-west, vertical displacement results.<\/p>\n


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\"Open<\/a> Live example «GMTSAR example dataset S1A_Stack_CPGF_T173» illustrates SBAS analyse and detrending approach to remove atmospheric noise to produce much better results.<\/p>\n


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\"Open<\/a> Live example «ASF Downloading 2020 Ardabil, Iran Earthquake Co-Seismic Interferogram and LOS Displacement» downloads Sentinel-1 Scenes from Alaska Satellite Facility (ASF) to crop the area and merge sub-swaths and detrend results.<\/p>\n


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Live Examples for Offline Usage<\/h2>\n

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PyGMTSAR on your computer requires only two things: download and run it using Docker Desktop tool like. And maybe you need to install Docker Desktop first if you do not have it already, this step is easy and I explain it below.<\/p>\n

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Docker Desktop<\/a> is a tool to run prepared software packages on different operating systems. It supports Windows, Linux, MacOS Intel & Apple Silicon systems. For other OSes there is Docker Engine<\/a> tool too, although it is more complicated to use.
By this way download and install Docker Desktop<\/a> for your computer\u2019s operation system following the instructions below if you need step-by-step help for the process:<\/p>\n

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