SAR4Tectonics - Sentinel-1 - Eurasia
The SAR4Tectonics project aims to provide open-access, global measurements of ground deformation in high-strain areas near tectonic plate boundaries. By leveraging the capabilities of the Persistent and Distributed Scatterer (PS/DS) technique with Sentinel-1 SAR images, the project seeks to deliver comprehensive and accurate data on ground deformation, which is crucial for understanding geological processes, assessing seismic risks in these regions, and advance our understanding of Earth's dynamic processes in general. The PS/DS technique offers significantly denser spatial coverage than GNSS, enabling the detection of more localized deformation signals. For the first time, such a vast and detailed dataset is made publicly available. By making this data openly accessible, the SAR4Tectonics project hopes to reduce the burden of SAR data processing for geoscientists, facilitating future studies.The project involved processing 6.5 years of SAR data, focusing on areas where the second invariant of strain exceeds 3 nanostrain per year. Various error corrections were employed, including tropospheric delay correction using ECMWF reanalysis data, ionospheric mitigation via CODE total electron content maps, and solid earth tide modeling. Additionally, the impact of vegetation and soil moisture on distributed scatterers was minimized through a full covariance matrix (phase linking) approach, and the results were calibrated using GNSS data. The final dataset includes line-of-sight average velocity maps, deformation time series, projection vectors, and reference plate modeled velocities.
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- Date (Creation)
- 2025-06-02T00:00:00
- Citation identifier
- https://geoservice.dlr.de/catalogue/srv/metadata/6b3b599e-b334-458d-beea-b43a7588b0ae
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- Digital map
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DOI: TBD
- Status
- Completed
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
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DLR
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EOC
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Land
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SAR4Tectonics
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ground deformation
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high-strain areas
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tectonic plate boundaries
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PS/DS
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InSAR
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seismic risk assessment
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Sentinel-1
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opendata
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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Geology
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Natural risk zones
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Nutzungseinschränkungen: Das DLR ist nicht haftbar für Schäden, die sich aus der Nutzung ergeben. / Use Limitations: DLR not liable for damage resulting from use.
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Nutzungsbedingungen: License, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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License
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Nutzungsbedingungen: License, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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- Grid
- Denominator
- 200000
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eng
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- UTF8
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- Geoscientific information
- Begin date
- 2016-05-01T00:00:00
- End date
- 2022-12-31T23:59:59
- Reference system identifier
- EPSG / WGS 84 / World Mercator (EPSG:4326) / 8.6
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- OnLine resource
- EOC Download Service ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )
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- EOC STAC Collection ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )
- OnLine resource
- EOC STAC Collection ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )
- OnLine resource
- https://geoservice.dlr.de/eoc/land/wms?SERVICE=WMS&REQUEST=GetCapabilities ( OGC:WMS-http-get-capabilities )
- OnLine resource
- EOC Geoservice Dataset ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )
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SAR4TEC_EURASIA_EAST_ASCE
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OGC:WMS
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S4T Eurasia (EURA) - Ascending
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SAR4TEC_EURASIA_EAST_DESC
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OGC:WMS
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S4T Eurasia (EURA) - Descending
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- Dataset
Domain consistency
- Measure identification
- INSPIRE / Conformity_001
Conformance result
- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
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See the referenced specification.
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- Yes
- Statement
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The SAR4Tectonics dataset is based on Copernicus Sentinel-1 SAR images and Digital Elevation Model, ECMWF reanalysis data, CODE total electron content maps, solid earth tide modeling, and GNSS deformation measurements.
- Description
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The dataset was processed using the IWAP processor, employing the PS/DS and phase linking techniques, also using ECMWF reanalysis data, CODE total electron content maps, and solid earth tide modeling.The authors gratefully acknowledge the computational and data resources provided through the joint high-performance data analytics (HPDA) project "terrabyte" of the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and the Leibniz Supercomputing Center (LRZ).
- File identifier
- 6b3b599e-b334-458d-beea-b43a7588b0ae XML
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- English
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- UTF8
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- Dataset
- Hierarchy level name
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Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2025-07-02T12:06:23
- Metadata standard name
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19115-1:2014/19139
- Metadata standard version
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1.0
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