PSI Post Processing Service¶

PSI post-proc

The PSI Post Processing service, developed by TRE-Altamira, is aimed at producing derived results starting from PSI results produced with SqueeSAR TM (off-line) and SBAS PSI processing.

This service allows users to make some post-processing of PSI results. It includes:

Projecting PSI displacement in the line-of-sight (LOS) direction onto a predefined direction of real ground displacement (east-west, up-down or down-slope) using one single orbit pass or both.
Filtering points by means of a phase quality indicator or geometrical distortion masks (foreshortening or layover).
Computing the acceleration field and changing the reference point.

EO sources supported:

PSI displacements results produced with SqueeSAR TM and CNR IREA S1-SBAS processing.

Output specifications

The generated outputs are a csv, a float and a rgb GeoTiff of the velocity and finaly a png of the velocity that is shown in the map. See Outputs for more details.

Application selection¶

The user shall login on the GEP and in the “Processing Services” section , select the “PSI Post-Proc” service from the “services” tab.

Select the files to process¶

First of all select the SqueeSAR(TM) from the EO data.

Is possible to do the projection or the decomposition depending on the selection of the files to process. To select a file is necessary to drag the files to the ASCENDING FILE and DESCENDING FILE cell.

Selecting one file, ascending or descending performs the projection.
Selecting both files ascending and descending performs the decomposition.

Fill the parameters values¶

Select the point filters¶

The application allows to filter points using the coherence and the geometrical distorsions.

Coherence filter: apply a filter to remove points with a coherence value lower that the selected COHERENCE THRESHOLD.
Geometrical distorsion filters: is possible to select a layover and a foreshortening filter. In case the foreshortening filter is selected, a FORESHORTENING THRESHOLD value should be selected.

Reference point selection¶

The application allows to change the reference point of the motion database. To change the reference point is necessary to select the coordinates of the new reference point and the application will get the closest point to the selected coordinates. To select a new reference point is necessary set to YES the CHANGE REFERENCE POINT cell and set the REFERENCE LATITUDE and the REFERENCE LONGITUDE. Also is possible to set a coherence threshold for the selection of the new reference point using the REFERENCE COHERENCE THRESHOLD.

Acceleration calculation¶

Is possible to calculate the acceleration of the results, there are 2 options to select:

2n order model
Velocity derivative

Ground projections¶

Finally we should select the GROUND PROJECTION there are 3 available options:

UP-DOWN projection/decomposition.
EAST-WEST projection/decomposition.
DOWNSLOPE projection/decomposition. In this case is possible to filter points with a low sensitivity setting the DOWNSLOPE SENSITIVITY FILTER.

Run the job¶

Once you have selected the configuration, click on the button Run Job. Is possible to see the percentage of the running job.

When job finishes and the status is possible to see the results clicking on the Show results button.

Outputs¶

The generated outputs are a csv, a float and a rgb GeoTiff of the velocity and finaly a png of the velocity that is shown in the map. The output filenames should have this name: [asc/desc/asc_desc]_[ud/ew/dsl]_[proj/decomp]

Selecting an ascending file:

asc_ud_proj
asc_ew_proj
asc_dsl_proj_dsl and asc_dsl_proj_los

Selecting a descending file:

desc_ud_proj
desc_ew_proj
desc_dsl_proj_dsl and desc_dsl_proj_los

Selecting an ascending and a descending file:

asc_desc_ud_decomp
asc_desc_ew_decomp
asc_desc_dsl_decomp_dsl, asc_desc_dsl_decomp_los