The goal of this project is to develop a tool to automatically download Sentinel-1 SAR images from online repositories by selecting select areas and time periods of interest. This allows to reduce the number of manual operations that are needed to download those data, making easier the access and the processing of SAR images. The processing will be performed by the existing PHASE software (https://github.com/robimonti/PHASE/tree/main) and, therefore, the developed GUI needs to be integrated into this software. PHASE software is written in MATLAB but this plug-in can be written in other languages and then called inside the MATLAB script.
Requirements and guidelines:
- The tool should be compatible to Windows, macOS and Linux, as PHASE currently is.
- The SAR images can be taken from any online repository, such as
- Alaska.edu Vertex (https://search.asf.alaska.edu/#/) or
- Copernicus dataspace (https://browser.dataspace.copernicus.eu/).
- The user should select the area of interest (AOI) from either a shapefile or a bounding box, loading them or drawing on an interactive map.
- Besides area and time, the user should be able to select other SAR-related parameters such as the orbit type, track and path numbers.
- Data must be downloaded in background with a progress bar showing the current state.