SARscape 5.

SARscape 5.4
Major New Features

Andrey Giardino
Senior Earth Observation Engineer, sarmap

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Who we are

sarmap is a Swiss company funded in 1998. Its mission is to build and provide innovative remote
sensing based solutions for the provision of digital information.

Core activities:
• SARscape and OPTICALscape – a set of modules, embedded in ENVI and worldwide distributed by
HARRIS, for the processing of spaceborne and airborne SAR and optical data.
• Digital Elevation Model based on spaceborne and airborne SAR systems, and, more recently, on the
synergetic use with stereo-optical data and UAV.
• Land displacements for the measurement and modelling of Earth movements up to mm level.
• Agricultural services targeted to food security and insurance applications. A dedicated remote
sensing processing chain MAPscape-RICE has been developed.
• Forest services targeted to certification and insurance applications. A dedicated remote sensing
processing chain MAPscape-TransparentForests has been developed.

Clients are governments, international bodies, NGOs, research centers, remote sensing and multi-
national technology companies, and re-/insurance sector.

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ENVI SARscape – integrated operational SAR processing solution

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A modular set of functions

(modules)

• Basic

• Focusing

• Gamma & Gaussian Filter

• Interferometry & Differential Interferometry

• ScanSAR Interferometry

• SAR Polarimetry / Polarimetric Interferometry

• Interferometric stacking (PS + SBAS)

• Cluster version
• Algorithms continuously improved through:
– Internal developments
– ESA-financed and other research projects
– Collaborations with many universities and expert groups

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SARscape 5.4 major features (1)

• All SARscape processing functionalities available also through ENVI Task

system.
• TerraSAR-X and PALSAR-2 ScanSAR interferometry.
• Ship detection.
• Moving target detection.
• New coherence workflows.
• De Grandi filtering significant speed-up through OpenCL parallel
implementation; incremental processing support.

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Major features (2)

• Sentinel-1 orbit file downloader, which allows to populate and/or update

an orbit repository.
• Automatic resuming and preview-only download support in the Sentinel
Downloader.
• Sentinel-1 selective import and automatic merging
• Automatic SRTM-1v3 DEM (1 arc second) extraction and mosaicking.
• New add-on modules for SBAS and CCD cluster processing.

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Finally the same version number!

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SARscape Tasks

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PALSAR-2 ScanSAR Interferometry

Large area
coverage

Nepal 2015
earthquake

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TerraSAR-X ScanSAR Interferometry

Large area
coverage

Chile 2016
earthquake

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Ship detection

• 2-parameters CFAR (Constant False Alarm Rate) detector

approach
• Integrated land masking and buffering
• Additional rejection criteria

• AIS data are not exploited for detection, but can be imported
within SARscape and overlaid for comparison

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Sentinel-1 data

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Detected ships

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SAR, detected ships and AIS data

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Moving target detection

New workflow for highlighting

moving objects within very high
resolution imagery

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New Coherence Change Detection Workflows

New automated processing chains whose purpose is the generation of standard
products for change detection.

Possibility to identify specific changes (targets, areas of interest) occurred in

specific periods of time.

List of Images (Envisat)

- 20031001
- 20040428
- 20041124
- 20050413

Coherence generation (consecutive

pairs):
Red  20031001-20040428
Green  20040428-20041124
Blu  20041124-20050413

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New Coherence Change Detection Workflows

New automated processing chains whose purpose is the generation of standard
products for change detection.

Possibility to identify specific changes (targets, areas of interest) occurred in

specific periods of time.

List of Images (Envisat)

- 20031001
- 20040428
- 20041124
- 20050413

Coherence generation (consecutive

pairs):
Red  20031001-20040428
Green  20040428-20041124
Blu  20041124-20050413

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New Coherence Change Detection Workflows

New automated processing chains whose purpose is the generation of standard
products for change detection.

Possibility to identify specific changes (targets, areas of interest) occurred in

specific periods of time.

- 20150418
- 20150430

RED  Master Pwr

GREEN  Slave Pwr
BLU  Coherence

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Parallel Computing and Cluster solutions

More ground covers are required and the new sensors (e.g.
Sentinel) provides very big data.

Processing times longer and longer…

Parallel computing and cluster solutions are necessary!

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Parallel Computing and Cluster solutions

Solutions based on the joint use of algorithm exploiting parallel computing and cluster
architecture:
• SARscape users (clients) delegating processing requests to the cluster.
• Cluster nodes, one per available CPU or GPU.
• Orchestrator managing clients and nodes.

ENVI
SARscape
(client-side)

tcp/ip
orchestrator

tcp/ip
SARscape
cluster cluster node cluster node cluster node
(server-side)
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SBAS test-case

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What’s next?

• SARscape 5.4.1, due June 2017

– Sentinel-1 GPU-based focusing

– AIS + ship detection extension

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Corner Reflectors, Queensland (Australia)

Updated CR positions courtesy
31 Corner reflectors of Matt Garthwaite,
Geoscience Australia

Garthwaite et al., 2015,

Australian J. of Earth Sciences

IW3

bursts
IW2
Sentinel-1 IW swaths
IW1

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Positioning accuracy
SARscape resolution

Slant-range : -0.57 m +/- 0.69

Ground-range : -0.93 m +/- 1.12
Azimuth : 2.50 +/- 0.56

ESA SLC
Slant-range : 0.96 m +/- 0.34
Ground-range : 1.68 m +/- 0.65
Azimuth : 3.02 +/- 0.40

Spatial resolution Sub-pixel peak position

SARscape ESA SLC

Slant-range : 2.86 m +/- 0.23 Slant-range : 2.83 m +/- 0.22
Ground-range : 4.93 m +/- 0.22 Ground-range : 4.88 m +/- 0.21
Azimuth : 20.27 m +/- 2.09 Azimuth : 22.09 m +/- 0.21

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Opticalscape

 OPTICALscape – embedded in ENVI Standard – is a modular set of functions

supporting the generation of Digital Surface Model (DSM) and ortho-rectified (pan-
sharpened) images/mosaics based on:
• Spaceborne optical stereo and triplet images;
• UAV optical multiple stereo images.

 The spaceborne module, additionally, includes a dedicated functionality enabling the

fusion of elevation data acquired from other sensors and techniques,
particularly SAR interferometry (refer to SARscape Interferometry module).

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Supported sensors

Spaceborne module • Cartosat

• GeoEye
• Ikonos
• Pleiades
• QuickBird
• SPOT
• WorldView

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DSM quality and level of detail

Spaceborne module

LIDAR DSM (2 m) Ikonos DSM (5 m)

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DSM and ortho-rectified mosaic (520 images)

UAV module

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3D view

UAV module

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Thanks a lot for your

attention!

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