Array NEST

NEST Bug Fix Update 4B-1.1 2011-12-01

Problem reports fixed:

#382  Tiled generation of Kmz file for product
#404  RADARSAT-2 product naming
#415  RS2 Calibrate I and Q bands separately for complex product     
#470  Shadow-layover values are not correct     
#471  Cross Correlation not cancelled     
#472  GPT not writing the selected format
#478  The GPT writes only in the directory where it starts     
#479  Add a button to save the project.     
#481  Terrasar-X SSC TC of Calibrated data     
#484  RADARSAT-2 product naming
#487  JVM startup parameters prevent starting on some systems
#488  Azimuth Filtering problem with tiles along the edges
#489  Performance improvement on Interferogram and Azimuth filter
#490  Dependency conflict with Worldwind and Xerces
#495  PCA in one graph
#499  Product Library date off by one day

Known Issues

NEST Release 4B-1.0 2011-09-02

• Full InSAR processing chain, except unwrapping and stack processing (Available soon)
  
  • Improved interferogram and coherence
  • Topographic phase removal
  • Filtering of spectras in range and azimuth
• Command line interface improvments
• Easier Coregistration from the command line
• $Band0, $Band1 variables for batch processing of BandMaths
• ReprojectionUI for graph processing
• Automatic fetching of DORIS and PRARE orbit files
• Automatic GETASSE30 download
• New interpolators
• HSV View

Problem reports fixed:

321    RGB problem with 2 bands
313    Configure location of .nest folder
387    Add linear to dB operator
233    Getting orbit files from FTP for PRARE and DORIS
138    Add keyboard shortcuts and functionality as Windows
392    Downloading Orbits needs progress bar
393    Replace metadata from menu not recognizing polsar_data
395    Search Metadata by Value
396    Batch processing of BandMaths
391    Reprojection Operator
398    ProductLibrary Quicklooks
402    Radarsat-2 calibration is not correct for subset
403    SARSimTC performs unnecessary coregistrations for full pol product
399    windfield estimation produces constant wind speed
400    Artifacts in TC image when ACE DEM is used
397    CreateStackUI for default band selection
405    Modular Help
406    ASTER GDEM problem in Arctic regions
407    ProductSet Add All Open products
408    Default RGB bands
411    Relax band maths to use multiple product from differrent locations
412    More accurate land mask with SRTM 3 sec data
413    reprojectionUI for graphs
225    Update Tool to verify that all products are up to date wrt calibration, orbit files
409    Multilook to optionally not produce real and imaginary
404    Frost, Lee and Gamma map filters produce same result for TerraSAR-X
414    Source pixel spacings should be displayed in TC UI
416    EC GG does not work
417    Data in wind field report is too long
418    STD and RMS filters do not work
420    label in object detection result does not match target size
421    EEC mode TerraSAR-X geocoding is not correct
422    Add geoRegion from Beam to SubsetOp
423    Large TSX products not read
424    Geocoding is incorrect for ALOS level 1.1 product
302    GEC/IMG products displayed as satellite coordinates
394    Launch PolsarPro
425    RS2 average scene height
426    Delay load database to speed up startup
427    Add sorting options to Product Library
428    Improve geoBoundaries in product library world map
429    Orbit file downloads threading issue
430    TanDemX products not handled properly
431    Faster reader determination for product library
432    Fill productset reader table from database
434    Batch processing dialog report errors at the end
435    Batch processing - report estimated time remaining
436    Use new GeoTools reprojection in TC
438    GeoTiff export not handling very large files
439    numerous issues with NetCDF reader/writer
440    Auto download GETASSE30
442    User defined filter kernel not working
443    4B-0.7 Linux jre is incorrectly packaged
444    4B-0.7 Database complains about orbit_cycle
448    Win64 jblas dependencies
447    RS2 incidence angle and slant range time tie point grids do not match image
453    multilook always output intensity band
466    New option to not mask areas without elevation data
458    RS2 EC is corrupted
456    Terrain correction metadata not filled in
467    SAR Sim TC result for RS2 descending pass product is wrong
464    layermanager compatability with insar products
469    ProductLibrary stability - missing products
460    Subsampling and TC
459    Multilook band selection
468    Oversampling ASAR product failed
299    Subset parameters
461    TC filenotfound error
455    ENVI writer fails
457    Cosmo EC has a shift
323    multpile layer selection
22      choose which directories appear in a new project
465    Coregistration extents not working
441    HSV min/max not correct when using expressions
383    Abstracted Doppler centroid for 3rd party readers
450    Topo phase removal UI has no defaults
463    Coherence unit
446    Doppler centroid coefficients are missing in metadata for TSX
452    InSAR operators handling of input and output bands
451    InSAR operators not checking input

NEST Release 4A-1.6 2010-11-02

Bug fixes for TC of TerrasarX, CosmoSkymed, Radasat2
TC of PolsarPro processed products keeping output complex
Updated help
Use of SRTM in land masking

Supported Products

Current Spreadsheet of Supported Products

NEST Release 4A-1.5 2010-09-10

New Features

• • InSAR - Coherence Estimation
• • InSAR - Inteferogram Generation
• • TerraSAR-X Calibration
• • Cosmo-Skymed Calibration thanks to Jason Fritz
• • Product Library Metadata Database
• • Improvements to TerraSARX and CosmoSkymed Terrain Correction

Known Issues

• • New sinc interpolators for InSAR coregistration only available for Win64 and Linux64
• • ASTER Global DEM is not currently height corrected relative to the WGS84 ellipsoid
• • Cosmo-Skymed TC and radiometric normalization is not fully validated

NEST Release 3C 2010-03-05

• • Basic Wind Field Estimation
• • New ROI, bitmask and Geometry Management allowing users to draw and manipulate geometries (vector data) or to import them from ESRI Shapefiles.
• • Reprojection with more than 100 predefined map projections based on EPSG codes. For user-defined map projections you can now select from 25 map projection transformations and more than 100 geodetic datums.
• • ASAR WSS Debursting and Mosaicking
• • Layover and Shadow Bitmasks
• • Fill Holes in DEM
• • Multicore support
• • Bug Fixes and Performance Enhancements

• • Cosmo-Skymed
• • Radarsat-1
• • TerraSARX SSC

NEST Release 3B 2009-10-23

• • Multitemporal Speckle Filtering
• • Refined Lee Speckle Filtering
• • Oil spill detection
• • Object detection
• • Land Masking
• • Bug Fixes and Performance Enhancements

NEST Release 3A 2009-08-18

• • Mosaicking
• • Orthorectification using a simulated SAR image
• • Batch processing from the DAT
• • Bug Fixes and Performance Enhancements

NEST Release 2C 2009-06-16

• • Orthorectification for Envisat ASAR, ERS, and Radarsat2 products
• • Radiometric terrain correction for Envisat ASAR products
• • Retrocalibration with a DEM for Envisat ASAR products
• • Automatic import of 90m SRTM DEM
• • ASAR Wave Product Support
• • Layer Management
• • Vector Shape Layers
• • Web Map Service (WMS) layers
• • NASA WorldWind Integration
• • Map Projection & Subset Operators
• • Ingestion and utilisation of external orbit files - DORIS VOR, POR and DELFT Precise Orbits

NEST Release 2B 2009-03-06

• • Complex Coregistration
• • New interface for Coregistration
• • Principle Component Analysis
• • ALOS PALSAR Calibration
• • Orbit File Correction - DORIS VOR, POR
• • HDF 4 & 5 reader, HDF 5 writer
• • NetCDF reader and writer
• • Data type conversion
• • PolsarPro Reader

• • ALOS PALSAR
• • TerraSarX
• • Radarsat 2

NEST Release 2A 2008-12-22

• • Undersampling and Oversampling for Envisat and ERS products
• • ENVI Reader

NEST Release 1C 2008-11-24

• • A Display and Analysis Tool (DAT) SAR data visualisation, analysis and processing.
• • A Graph Processing Tool (GPT) for command line execution of batch processing chains.
• • A rich collection of readers and writers to allow easy and efficient access to SAR data, abstracted internal representation and output to common formats for compatibility with other software.
• • Read, display and calibrate ENVISAT ASAR and ERS 1 & 2
• • Provide statistics, quick-looks and ingest parts or entire datasets
• • Convert data to COTS file formats for use with third-party software
• • Create and process graphs
• • Tiled image viewing and support for very large datasets
• • Coregistration of detected products
• • Slant Range to Ground Range conversion
• • Time domain mulitlook
• • Mean, Lee, Frost, Gamma Map Speckle Filtering
• • ASAR WSS Debursting
• • Band Arithmetic
• • Image Filtering
• • Third-party developers are able to extend software and add new readers, writers and operators.

• • ENVISAT ASAR, MERIS, AATSR
• • ERS AMI 1 & 2 (CEOS & Envisat format from PGS and VMP)
• • JERS SAR
• • BEAM DIMAP
• • GeoTIFF
• • GETASSE30 DEM
• • ACE DEM