Introduction

Geodetic Corner Reflector (In)SAR Toolbox (GECORIS) is a Python framework for integrated analysis of satellite SAR time series of natural and artificial radar reflectors, such as corner reflectors or radar transponders. GECORIS can:

• perform geodetic positioning of artificial reflectors;

• assess the clutter level of a particular site before reflector installation;

• estimate the Radar Cross Section (RCS) time series to track reflector’s performance and detect outliers, e.g. due to debris accumulation or damage;

• estimate the Signal-to-Clutter Ratio (SCR) to predict the positioning precision and the InSAR phase variance;

• estimate the InSAR displacement time series of the reflector network.

GECORIS is partly built on the Sentinels Application Platform (SNAP). Currently supported are Sentinel-1 SLC measurements.

GECORIS is described in this paper.

Copyright

(c) 2021 by Richard Czikhardt

Department of Theoretical Geodesy and Geoinformatics, Slovak University of Technology

Support

Warning

THIS IS A RESEARCH CODE PROVIDED TO YOU “AS IS” WITH NO WARRANTIES OF CORRECTNESS. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK.

Note

Currently, the InSAR processing is limited access feature. If you would like access, support, and debugging, please contact me via czikhardt.richard@gmail.com.

How to cite

Czikhardt R, van der Marel H, Papco J. GECORIS: An Open-Source Toolbox for Analyzing Time Series of Corner Reflectors in InSAR Geodesy. Remote Sensing. 2021; 13(5):926. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13050926

License

GNU GPL v3+