Useful Code Libraries - European Space Agency (ESA)
ESA is developing, under the SEOM program element, new free open
source toolboxes for the scientific exploitation of the Sentinels
missions:
The Sentinel-1,
Sentinel-2
and
Sentinel-3
toolboxes are based on a
common architecture called the Sentinel Application Platform (SNAP)
and are being developed in a coordinated joint venture of several
industrial partners and scientists. The first public release of the
toolboxes, under GNU GPL open source license, was in September 2014.
The Sentinel 5P
toolbox is a collection of executable tools and an
application programming interface (API) which has been developed to
facilitate the utilisation, viewing and processing of ESA and Third
Party atmospheric data products. The first public release of the
software is available from November 2014 under a GNU GPL open source
license.
The Polarimetric SAR Data Processing and Educational Tool
(PolSAR pro)
aims to facilitate the accessibility and exploitation of
multi-polarised SAR datasets including those from ESA (Envisat ASAR
Alternating Polarisation mode products and Sentinel-1 dual pol) and
Third Party Missions (ALOS-1 PALSAR, ALOS-2 PALSAR, COSMO-SkyMed,
RADARSAT-2, RISAT, TerraSAR-X and Tandem-X).
The Broadview Radar Altimetry Toolbox (BRAT)
is a collection of tools
and documents designed to facilitate the use of radar altimetry data,
in particular the novel SAR-mode Altimetry on CryoSat, Sentinel-3 and
Sentinel-6. It can read most distributed radar altimetry data and
performs processing and data editing, extraction of statistics, and
visualisation of results. BRAT is an open source software with a
LGPL-3 license type. Its source code is publicly available on-line in
a dedicated GitHub repository.
