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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
Presentation form
Digital map
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DOI: TBD

Status
Completed
Author
  German Aerospace Center (DLR) -
Point of contact
  German Aerospace Center (DLR)
Maintenance and update frequency
As needed
Keywords
  • DLR

  • EOC

  • Land

  • SAR4Tectonics

  • ground deformation

  • high-strain areas

  • tectonic plate boundaries

  • PS/DS

  • InSAR

  • seismic risk assessment

  • Sentinel-1

  • opendata

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

  • Geology

  • Natural risk zones

Spatial scope
  • Global
Use limitation

Nutzungseinschränkungen: Das DLR ist nicht haftbar für Schäden, die sich aus der Nutzung ergeben. / Use Limitations: DLR not liable for damage resulting from use.

Use limitation

Nutzungsbedingungen: License, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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Other restrictions
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License

Use constraints
License
Use constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints

Nutzungsbedingungen: License, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Other constraints

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"name": "Creative Commons Namensnennung – 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)",

"url": " http://dcat-ap.de/def/licenses/cc-by/4.0 ",

"quelle": "Copyright DLR (year of production)"}

Spatial representation type
Grid
Denominator
200000
Language

eng

Character set
UTF8
Topic category
  • Geoscientific information
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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
Distribution format
OnLine resource
EOC Download Service ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )
OnLine resource
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 )
OnLine resource
SAR4TEC_EURASIA_EAST_ASCE ( OGC:WMS )

S4T Eurasia (EURA) - Ascending

OnLine resource
SAR4TEC_EURASIA_EAST_DESC ( OGC:WMS )

S4T Eurasia (EURA) - Descending

Hierarchy level
Dataset

Domain consistency

Measure identification
INSPIRE / Conformity_001

Conformance result

Date (Publication)
2010-12-08
Explanation

See the referenced specification.

Pass
Yes
Statement

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

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
Metadata language
English
Character set
UTF8
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Hierarchy level name

Dataset

Date stamp
2025-07-02T12:06:23
Metadata standard name

19115-1:2014/19139

Metadata standard version

1.0

Point of contact
  German Aerospace Center (DLR)
 
 

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Keywords

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
Geology Natural risk zones

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