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Articles | Volume XL-1
https://doi.org/10.5194/isprsarchives-XL-1-65-2014
https://doi.org/10.5194/isprsarchives-XL-1-65-2014
07 Nov 2014
 | 07 Nov 2014

Seamless Synthetic Aperture Radar Archive for Interferometry Analysis

S. Baker, C. Baru, G. Bryson, B. Buechler, C. Crosby, E. Fielding, C. Meertens, J. Nicoll, and C. Youn

Keywords: Radar, SAR, DEM, Data Mining, Processing, Archiving, Change Detection

Abstract. The NASA Advancing Collaborative Connections for Earth System Science (ACCESS) seamless synthetic aperture radar (SAR) archive (SSARA) project is a collaboration between UNAVCO, the Alaska Satellite Facility (ASF), the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), and OpenTopography at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) to design and implement a seamless distributed access system for SAR data and derived interferometric SAR (InSAR) data products. A unified application programming interface (API) has been created to search the SAR archives at ASF and UNAVCO, 30 and 90-m SRTM DEM data available through OpenTopography, and tropospheric data from the NASA OSCAR project at JPL. The federated query service provides users a single access point to search for SAR granules, InSAR pairs, and corresponding DEM and tropospheric data products from the four archives, as well as the ability to search and download pre-processed InSAR products from ASF and UNAVCO.