ROI_PAC is a
software
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At the lowest programming level, executable code consists ...
package created by the
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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division of
NASA
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and
Caltech
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for processing
SAR
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Places
* Sar (river), Galicia, Spain
* Sar, Bahrain, a residential district
* Sar, Iran (disambiguation), several places in Iran
* Sar, Tibet, Tibet Autonomous Region of China
* Šar Mountains, in southeastern Europe
...
images to create
InSAR Interferometric synthetic aperture radar, abbreviated InSAR (or deprecated IfSAR), is a radar technique used in geodesy and remote sensing. This geodetic method uses two or more synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images to generate maps of surface defo ...
images, named interferograms. ROI_PAC stands for Repeat Orbit Interferometry PACkage. It is a
UNIX
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based software package.
Although many sources exist discussing how to install and use the basic features of the program, there was never a complete user manual created on how to use the software.
See also
*
Interferometry
Interferometry is a technique which uses the ''interference'' of superimposed waves to extract information. Interferometry typically uses electromagnetic waves and is an important investigative technique in the fields of astronomy, fiber opt ...
External links
The Open Channel Foundation downloadSean Buckley's thesis on algorithms usedUniversity of California, Berkeley guideCaltech/JPL ROI_pac Wiki
Physical geography
Synthetic aperture radar
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