The European Space Agency organised the NEST InSAR course 2011, a 2 day devoted course about the Next ESA SAR Toolbox (NEST) and its InSAR capability.
The Course was hosted in Villa Tuscolana, Frascati, Italy on 26-27 September 2011, just after the Fringe 2011 workshop.

Objective

The objective of NEST InSAR course was to demonstrate the NEST software functionalities and to give participants the opportunity to gain an extensive and hands-on experience with SAR/InSAR algorithms and real data processing.

Contents 

• Theoretical principles of InSAR, covering the basics, potential and limitations of satellite radar interferometry.
• InSAR processing algorithms, covering computational aspects and main principles of InSAR processing algorithms with their explanation and demonstration in NEST. Specifically:
  • InSAR coregistration and resampling/warping
  • interferogram formation
  • azimuth and range filtering
  • estimation and subtraction of the flat earth phase
  • computation and subtraction of the topographic phase
  • phase filtering
  • coherence estimation
  • etc.
• Applications and case studies that will be covered in detail:
  • DEM retrieval
  • Geophysical applications
  • Running an InSAR project in NEST: from ordering SLC data to added value products - construction and tailoring of NEST processing flow.

Course handouts

NEST 2011 InSAR Course Theory by Petar Marinkovic (PPO.labs)

NEST 2011 InSAR Course Practical by Andrea Minchella, RSAC/ESA and Petar Marinkovic, PPO.labs

Contact

Course Co-Ordination
Earth Observation R&D Team (e-mail: eotraining@esa.int)