ESA SNAP – Stamps integrated processing for sentinel-1 persistent scatterer interferometry

Jose Manuel Delgado Blasco , Diego Fernandez , Michael Foumelis (1) , Jose Manuel Delgado Blasco , Yves-Louis Desnos (2) , Marcus Engdahl , Diego Fernández , Luis Veci , Jun Lu (3) , Cecilia Wong

1 BRGM - Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières (BRGM)
2 ESA - Agence Spatiale Européenne = European Space Agency
3 Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics

Recent development by European Space Agency (ESA) involved the extension of the interferometric capabilities of the SentiNel Application Platform (SNAP) to enable SAR interferometric time series analysis through the Stanford Method of Persistent Scatterer (StaMPS) software package. In the current work, we demonstrate the enabled Persistent Scatterers Interferometry (PSI) processing of Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission data through SNAP-StaMPS integrated processing. A detailed overview of the processing steps involved as well as considerations and assumptions to exploit the SNAP-StaMPS synergy are presented. We intend to support the Earth Observation community by providing guidelines for Sentinel-1 TOPS data PSI processing using open source software packages. We demonstrate the SNAP functionality by processing two stacks of Sentinel-1 products over Mexico City (Mexico) and Rome (Italy).

Keywords: Index Terms -Copernicus Sentinel-1; ESA SNAP; Persistent Scatterers Interferometry; StaMPS

Domains: Environmental Sciences

Jose Manuel Delgado Blasco, Diego Fernandez, Michael Foumelis, Jose Manuel Delgado Blasco, Yves-Louis Desnos, et al.. ESA SNAP – Stamps integrated processing for sentinel-1 persistent scatterer interferometry. International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium - IGARSS 2018, Jul 2018, Valence, Spain. pp.1364-1367, ⟨10.1109/IGARSS.2018.8519545⟩. ⟨hal-01783582⟩