The Canadian Space Agency CSA is planning to make all of RADARSAT-1 freely available. However, they don’t know how much of demand there is for single pol data from 1995-2013. If you’re interested in the data please let them know http://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/contact.asp so they can fund it.
Free historic data from Landsat has created various innovations and research. It would be great to spark similar innovations with historic SAR data.
I’m, having the same issue. All I could find are the SGF format images in the open catalogue and RAW formats in the RAW catalogue which are not open access. I downloaded the SGF data which appears as below, but I can’t manage to import it into snap using the RADARSAT1 import tool.
For RCM, I think this may only be the case until they replace the archaic Remove Sensing Act (RSSA) which prevents distribution of phase data for the benefit of the vendor. Otherwise the data would be useless to anyone except DND for ship tracking. This year is an election year so who knows when this will happen.
I just want to ask what Product Type and Beam Mode should I use when using RADARSAT-1 data for InSAR analysis should I get permission to use these from the appropriate agency?
InSAR requires complex data which is only stored in SLC products. Unfortunately, the current EODMS only hosts SGF products.
Furthermore, not all Radarsat-1 products are within the archive, many over Europe and Asia are missing somehow. I searched a lot for an explanation but couldn’t find one.
So this means, I can not use Level 0 nor Level 1 RADARSAT-1 data for InSAR analysis.
Is it possible to request from the User Support Office through (uso@asf.alaska.edu) the SLC products if they are available for my AOI? Is there a high possibility that USO grants the request?
If there is low possibility that I can get the RADARSAT-1 SLC data from USO, do you know where I can download ERS-2 SLC products?
RADARSAT-1 and ERS-2 are the only satellite missions that were operated for the period of interest (year 2000).
I don’t know much about their user support or policies, sorry.
Technically, you could download the Level 0 product and make SLC data out of it, but you cannot do this in SNAP, because it doesn’t feature handling of raw data.