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Tectonic Landforms Data Access and Tools

Access the datasets and tools you need to make the most of tectonic landform research.

Tectonic Landforms Datasets

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Dataset Sort descending	Version	Platforms	Instruments	Temporal Extent	Spatial Extent
Sentinel-1A Single Polarization Medium Resolution Ground Range Detected Product	1	Sentinel-1A	C-SAR	2014-04-03 to Present	N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180
Sentinel-1A Single Polarization Medium Resolution Ground Range Detected Product Metadata	1	Sentinel-1A	C-SAR	2014-04-03 to Present	N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180
Sentinel-1B Dual Polarization High Resolution Ground Range Detected Product	1	Sentinel-1B	C-SAR	2016-04-25 to 2021-12-24	N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180
Sentinel-1B Dual Polarization High Resolution Ground Range Detected Product Metadata	1	Sentinel-1B	C-SAR	2016-04-25 to 2021-12-24	N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180
Sentinel-1B Dual Polarization Medium Resolution Ground Range Detected Product	1	Sentinel-1B	C-SAR	2016-04-25 to 2021-12-24	N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180
Sentinel-1B Dual Polarization Medium Resolution Ground Range Detected Product Metadata	1	Sentinel-1B	C-SAR	2016-04-25 to 2021-12-24	N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180
Sentinel-1B Level 0 Product	1	Sentinel-1B	C-SAR	2016-04-25 to 2021-12-24	N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180
Sentinel-1B Level 0 Product Metadata	1	Sentinel-1B	C-SAR	2016-04-25 to 2021-12-24	N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180
Sentinel-1B Single Look Complex Product	1	Sentinel-1B	C-SAR	2016-04-25 to 2021-12-24	N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180
Sentinel-1B Single Look Complex Product Metadata	1	Sentinel-1B	C-SAR	2016-04-25 to 2021-12-24	N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180

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Featured Tectonics Observation Method: Sentinel-1 C-band Synthetic Aperture Radar

The ESA (European Space Agency's) Sentinel-1A/B satellites are equipped with synthetic aperture radar (SAR) instruments that record continuous all-weather, day-and-night imagery. SAR energy beams can penetrate cloud and tree canopy cover to detect very small changes to the height, shape, and position of Earth surfaces. The ability of Sentinel-1 to capture detailed SAR images anywhere at any time makes them excellent tools for producing interferograms and digital elevation models to track the movement of Earth's tectonic landforms.

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Access Sentinel-1 SAR Data with NASA ASF DAAC's Vertex

Join us as we show new and experienced users how to use Vertex to discover and access Sentinel-1 synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data at NASA's Alaska Satellite Facility (ASF) Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC).

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Sentinel-1 Images Reveal Changes in the Earth’s Surface Over One Year

NASA's ASF DAAC released the Global Seasonal Sentinel-1 Interferometric Coherence and Backscatter Dataset.

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Explore Sentinel-1 InSAR

Get to know on-demand Sentinel-1 InSAR products from NASA’s Alaska Satellite Facility Distributed Active Archive Center (ASF DAAC).

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Create an Interferogram Using ESA’s Sentinel-1 Toolbox

This data recipe demonstrates InSAR processing by analyzing a pair of Sentinel-1 images captured pre and post the 2016 Kumamoto earthquake in Japan.

Tectonic Landforms Data Tools

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Tool Sort descending	Description	Services
Earthdata Search	Earthdata Search enables data discovery, search, comparison, visualization, and access across NASA’s Earth science data holdings.	Search and Discovery, Access, Cataloging, Cloud Computing, Downloading
Vertex	Vertex is a graphical search interface for finding synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data.	Search and Discovery, Access, Downloading, Processing, Subsetting
Worldview	Worldview offers the capability to interactively browse over 1,200 global, full-resolution satellite imagery layers and download the underlying data.	Analysis, Search and Discovery, Visualization, Access, Comparison, Monitoring Natural Events

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