Changelog

0.6 / 2018-11-20

SAR metadata

  • new standardized metadata fields orbitNumber_abs, orbitNumber_rel, cycleNumber and frameNumber for all SAR formats
  • customization of output file names with additional metadata fields (e.g. orbit numbers)

software configuration

  • pyroSAR configuration file handling: the paths to the SNAP and Gamma installation as well as relevant metadata directories are now registered in a configuration file config.ini, which is stored in a directory .pyrosar in the user home directory
  • improved SNAP installation verification: pyroSAR now performs a deeper check of the SNAP installation to make sure it is not mistaken with e.g. the Ubuntu package manager snap; relevant installation executables and directories are stored in the configuration file

general functionality

  • deeper integration of package spatialist: all the spatial file handling functionality that was part of pyroSAR is now part of package spatialist; now all the functionality is imported from spatialist and removed from pyroSAR
  • improved search for datasets processed by pyroSAR: new helper functions exist, which make it easier to search for datasets by metadata fields, which are internally searched for in the respective file names
  • introduced gamma function parser: these new tools search for a GAMMA_HOME environment variable and, if found, parse Python functions from the docstring of respective command line tools; for this, new Python scripts are created, which are stored alongside the configuration file in the user home directory; this way users can easily use Python functions with named parameters instead of the positional arguments of the Gamma command line tools
  • improved documentation

Open Data Cube Export

functionality to export processed datasets directly to an Open Data Cube: it is now possible to create Open Data Cube product YML files as well as YML files for data indexing and ingestion into this product; pyroSAR also internally checks for compatibility of a particular dataset with the target product; this way, the resulting files can easily be passed to the Open Data Cube command line tools several bug fixes

SNAP API

improved SNAP processing workflow node linking: it is now possible to add a node also before an existing one, instead of just after it

Python package integrity

  • add trove classifiers for supported operating systems and MIT license for easier online search
  • exchange http with https for all URLs that support it

0.7 / 2019-01-03

several changes to the functioning of the Gamma command API

GAMMA API

processing

  • pyroSAR.gamma.geocode():
    • optionally write all Gamma commands to shellscript
    • newly introduced choice of normalization method
    • changed normalization default approach
  • pyroSAR.gamma.process():
    • new parameter logfile to specify a logfile instead of just a directory with automated file naming
    • new parameter shellscript to write the executed command to a shell script protocol

command parser

  • add parameters outdir and shellscript to parsed functions
  • extensive improvement to accurately parse more commands
  • add parameter inlist to some commands, which require interactive input via stdin

general

  • several bug fixes
  • extended documentation
  • make use of parsed command functions internally
  • enable passing logpath, outdir and shellscript to all parsed functions via additional parameters for other convenience functions

0.8 / 2019-02-11

Auxiliary Data Handling

  • new module auxdata with function pyroSAR.auxdata.dem_autoload() to automatically download tiles of different DEM types overlapping with given geometries
  • class pyroSAR.S1.OSV: reduced search time for new RES orbit state vector files; included more meaningful status messages

GAMMA API

  • new function pyroSAR.gamma.srtm.dem_autocreate() to automatically create DEMs in Gamma format from the output of function pyroSAR.auxdata.dem_autoload()
  • improved writing of ENVI HDR files from class pyroSAR.gamma.ISPPar
  • class pyroSAR.gamma.UTM: improved to work with newer Gamma versions
  • function pyroSAR.gamma.geocode():
    • improved documentation
    • clarified code for better readability
    • more consistent naming scheme for all temporarily written files
    • export temporarily written files (e.g. local incidence angle) via new parameter export_extra
    • additional parametrization tests to ensure best processing result
    • changed default of parameter func_interp to 2 to work best with default of parameter normalization_method (see documentation of Gamma command pixel_area)

SNAP API

0.9 / 2019-06-15

Drivers

SNAP API

  • function pyroSAR.snap.util.geocode():
    • option to export DEM via parameter export_extra
    • added Sentinel-1 ThermalNoiseRemoval node via new parameter removeS1ThermalNoise
    • added Multilook node which is executed to approximate the target resolution if necessary (currently only for Sentinel-1 since metadata entries incidence and image_geometry are required)
    • new parameter groupsize to split workflows into several groups, which are executed separately with intermediate products written to disk. This increases processing speed
    • simplified internal node parametrization for easier use in future functions
    • fail if no POE orbit state vector file is found
    • Terrain-Flattening:
      • added additional parameters additionalOverlap and oversamplingMultiple
      • use bilinear instead of bicubic interpolation
    • Remove-GRD-Border-Noise: decrease borderLimit from 1000 to 500 (SNAP default)
    • new parameter gpt_exceptions to execute workflows containing specific nodes with different GPT versions than the default one
    • automatically remove node parameters on GPT fail and re-run the modified workflow; this is relevant if a node is executed in an older GPT version (e.g. via parameter gpt_exceptions), which does not accept parameters which were introduced in later GPT versions (e.g. those described above for node Terrain-Flattening)
    • disable/enable terrain flattening via new parameter terrainFlattening
    • optionally return workflow filename with new parameter returnWF
    • execute custom pyroSAR S1 GRD border noise removal (see pyroSAR.S1.removeGRDBorderNoise())
    • new parameters demResamplingMethod and imgResamplingMethod

GAMMA API

  • SRTM Tools renamed to DEM Tools
    • function pyroSAR.gamma.dem.dem_autocreate():
      • define arbitrary output CRS and resolution via new parameters t_srs and tr
      • optionally perform geoid to ellipsoid conversion in either GDAL or GAMMA via new parameter geoid_mode
  • function pyroSAR.gamma.geocode():
    • removed multiplication of backscatter with cosine of incident angle via command lin_comb
    • fixed bug in writing correct nodata values to ancillary products defined via parameter export_extra
    • changed default of parameter func_geoback from 2 to 1 (GAMMA default)
  • function pyroSAR.gamma.correctOSV():
    • fixed bug in using the first OSV file in a directory for correcting an image, which resulted in S1B files being corrected with S1A OSV files. This occasionally resulted in errors of no DEM overlap while processing S1B scenes
  • fixed bug in treating GAMMA image pixel coordinates as top left instead of pixel center. This is relevant for writing ENVI HDR files for GAMMA images via function pyroSAR.gamma.par2hdr() resulting in the image to be shifted by 1/2 pixel to Southeast

Command Parser

  • compatibility with GAMMA version released in November 2018
  • delete parsed modules if environment variable GAMMA_HOME was reset causing them to be re-parsed with the new version on module import

general functionality

Auxiliary Data Handling

0.9.1 / 2019-07-05

Auxiliary Data Handling

GAMMA API

SNAP API

0.10 / 2019-12-06

Drivers

GAMMA API

SNAP API

  • workflow parsing
    • improved output XML for better display in SNAP GUI
    • support for nodes with multiple input scenes, e.g. SliceAssembly
  • SAR processor (function gpt())
    • write Sentinel-1 manifest.safe with processing results
    • two methods for border noise removal: ESA and pyroSAR via new parameter removeS1BorderNoiseMethod
  • function pyroSAR.snap.util.geocode()
    • optional speckle filtering with new parameter speckleFilter
    • choose the output backscatter reference area (beta0/gamma0/sigma0) with new parameter refarea
    • default of parameter groupsize changed to 1
    • internally download S1 OSV files
    • internally download SNAP’s EGM96 geoid to WGS84 ellipsoid DEM conversion lookup table via new function pyroSAR.snap.auxil.get_egm96_lookup()
    • support for multi-scene SliceAssembly; can be invoke by passing a list of scenes to parameter infile
    • new parameter removeS1BorderNoiseMethod
    • new parameter gpt_args to pass additional arguments to the GPT call

Datacube Tools

Auxiliary Data Handling

  • OSV download functionality (class pyroSAR.S1.OSV)
    • made definition of OSV download directory optional; default is SNAP’s auxdata directory
    • organization of downloaded files into SNAP’s auxdata structure:
      • compression to zip
      • sort files into subdirs for sensor, year, month
    • removed method update()

Ancillary Tools

general

  • bug fixes and documentation improvements