RTC

NASA's Observational Products for End-Users from Remote Sensing Analysis (OPERA) Radiometric Terrain-Corrected (RTC) SAR backscatter from Sentinel-1 (RTC-S1) Science Application Software developed by the OPERA Algoritm Development Team at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).

Install

Instructions to install RTC under a conda environment.

1. Download the source code:

git clone https://github.com/opera-adt/RTC.git RTC

2. Install isce3:

conda install -c conda-forge isce3

3. Install s1-reader via pip:

git clone https://github.com/opera-adt/s1-reader.git s1-reader
conda install -c conda-forge --file s1-reader/requirements.txt
python -m pip install ./s1-reader

4. Install RTC via pip:

git clone https://github.com/opera-adt/s1-reader.git s1-reader
python -m pip install ./RTC

Usage

The command below generates the RTC product:

rtc_s1.py <path to rtc yaml file>

To compare the RTC-S1 products, use rtc_compare.py.

python rtc_s1.py <1st product HDF5> <2nd product HDF5>

License

Copyright (c) 2021 California Institute of Technology (“Caltech”). U.S. Government sponsorship acknowledged.

All rights reserved.

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

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