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6 changes: 6 additions & 0 deletions CHANGELOG.md
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and this project adheres to [PEP 440](https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0440/)
and uses [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html).

## [0.11.0]

### Changed
* Menu navigation to include entries for OPERA RTC-S1 resources
* [HyP3 Products page](docs/products.md) to include OPERA RTC-S1

## [0.10.9]

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On-demand SAR products generated using HyP3 are currently available for the
[Sentinel-1 mission](sentinel1.md "Sentinel-1 Mission")
only. Unless otherwise noted, On-Demand products are available for 14 days after they have been processed.
On-demand SAR products generated using HyP3 are currently available for the
[Sentinel-1 mission](sentinel1.md "Sentinel-1 Mission")
only. Unless otherwise noted, on-demand products are available for 14 days after they have been processed.

A Digital Elevation Model (DEM) is required to generate each of the On-Demand products offered by ASF, and we
generally use the
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these distortions and creates analysis-ready data suitable for use in GIS applications.
RTC processing is a required first step for many amplitude-based SAR applications.

There are two different processing approaches available for generating On-Demand RTC products from Sentinel-1:

- [Full-scene processing using GAMMA software](#full-scene-rtc-gamma)
- [OPERA RTC-S1 products](#opera-rtc-s1), processed on the basis of individual SLC bursts

### Full-scene RTC (GAMMA)

Sentinel-1 RTC products are generated from Level-1 Sentinel-1 IW acquisitions (either GRD or SLC files), leveraging
[GAMMA Software](https://gamma-rs.ch/gamma-software){target=_blank}.
Products are distributed as GeoTIFFs projected to a UTM Zone, with a pixel spacing of
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[RTC On Demand!](https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/2ead3222d2294d1fae1d11d3f98d7c35 "RTC On Demand! StoryMap" ){target=_blank}
tutorial.

### OPERA RTC-S1

The OPERA project at JPL has generated [Radiometric Terrain Corrected Backscatter for Sentinel-1](https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/go/opera/products/rtc-product/ "www.jpl.nasa.gov/go/opera/products/rtc-product" ){target=_blank}
(OPERA RTC-S1) products for all Sentinel-1 acquisitions over land (excluding Antarctica) since January 1, 2022.
These products are archived and
[available from ASF](https://search.asf.alaska.edu/#/?dataset=OPERA-S1&productTypes=RTC "Vertex search for OPERA RTC-S1 Products" ){target=_blank}.

The RTC algorithm used for the OPERA RTC-S1 products was developed by
[Gustavo Shiroma and others](https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20220000810 "An Efficient Area-Based Algorithm for SAR Radiometric Terrain Correction and Map Projection" ){target=_blank},
and is available in the
[ISCE3 open source software library](https://github.com/isce-framework/isce3 "github.com/isce-framework/isce3" ){target=_blank}.
The products are processed on the basis of individual Sentinel-1 SLC bursts, and output as Cloud-Optimized GeoTIFFs
(COGs) in a UTM Zone or Polar Stereographic projection. The pixel values represent gamma-0 power, and pixel spacing
is 30 meters. No speckle filter has been applied.

If the existing archive does not include products for your full time period of interest, you can generate
[OPERA RTC-S1 products On Demand](guides/opera_rtc_product_guide.md "OPERA RTC for Sentinel-1 (RTC-S1) Product Guide")
for any Sentinel-1 acquisition since April 14, 2016. These On-Demand products are processed
using the same code that the OPERA project uses to generate their products, but are generated using
[ASF's HyP3](https://hyp3-docs.asf.alaska.edu/ "hyp3-docs.asf.alaska.edu")
platform rather than the
[OPERA Science Data System (SDS)](https://software.nasa.gov/software/NPO-52101-1 "OPERA SDS" ){target=_blank}
platform.

More information on accessing OPERA RTC-S1 products is available in our
[OPERA Sentinel-1 RTC](https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/dc2807b444924fc3a76c117a2c909f8b "OPERA Sentinel-1 RTC StoryMap" ){target=_blank}
tutorial.

## InSAR

Interferometric SAR (InSAR) uses the phase differences from repeat passes over the
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- Product Guide: guides/rtc_product_guide.md
- StoryMap: https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/2ead3222d2294d1fae1d11d3f98d7c35" target="_blank
- Theoretical Basis: guides/rtc_atbd.md
- OPERA RTC-S1:
- guides/opera_rtc_product_guide.md
- Product Guide: guides/opera_rtc_product_guide.md
- Product Specs: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/go/opera/products/rtc-product/" target="_blank
- StoryMap: https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/dc2807b444924fc3a76c117a2c909f8b" target="_blank
- InSAR:
- guides/insar_product_guide.md
- Product Guide: guides/insar_product_guide.md
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