The Sentinel-1 mission provides continuous all-weather, day-and-night radar imaging for various applications, including environmental monitoring and disaster management. One of the key capabilities of the Sentinel-1 mission is its use of Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) technology. InSAR involves the precise measurement of ground deformation by analyzing the phase difference between radar images acquired at different time.

The Sentinel-1 data is freely and openly available to the public, enabling researchers and decision-makers worldwide to access and utilize the data for various applications, including InSAR analysis. However, InSAR data analysis requires significant computational resources and expertise, creating challenges for many users. In this context, the main aim of the CLOUDInSAR project is to develop an open-source, cloud-based solution for processing and analyzing Sentinel-1 InSAR data. This system will be integrated in the Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem (CDSE), enabling the generation and analysis of various InSAR products such as coherence, interferograms, unwrapped interferograms, and displacement maps. By granting access to these products, CDSE will streamline the utilization of InSAR techniques within the Earth Observation (EO) community, thereby fostering the use of Sentinel-1 InSAR for applications in fields like natural hazard assessment.

Contact person: Mattia Callegari, mattia.callegari@eurac.edu