ISCE - InSAR Scientific Computing Environment
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The InSAR Scientific Computing Environment (ISCE) is an open source library for processing spaceborne and airborne Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) data.
This project is a successor to the ISCE2 framework. It is a ground-up redesign focusing on improved modularity, documentation, and test-driven development.
Its initial development was funded by NASA's Earth Science Technology Office (ESTO) under the Advanced Information Systems Technology (AIST) 2008 and is currently being funded under the NASA-ISRO SAR (NISAR) project.
:warning: NOTICE: ISCE3 is in early development - its features and interface are subject to change
Installation
ISCE3 is available as a conda package via conda-forge. It has CPU-only and GPU-enabled versions available. You can install the CPU-only version with the following command:
conda install -c conda-forge isce3-cpu
Alternatively, if you have a NVIDIA GPU with CUDA support and the CUDA driver installed, you can use the GPU-enabled package for faster processing:
conda install -c conda-forge isce3-cuda
If you need to build ISCE3 from source, please refer to our more in-depth build instructions.
Getting Started
See the documentation at https://isce-framework.github.io/isce3/
Contributing
Contributions are welcome. Refer to the contributing guide for tips on getting started and guidelines for contributions. Please let us know if you encounter a bug by filing an issue
License
THIS IS RESEARCH CODE PROVIDED TO YOU "AS IS" WITH NO WARRANTIES OF CORRECTNESS. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK.
USE OF THIS SOFTWARE IS CONTROLLED BY THE TERMS SPECIFIED IN THE LICENSE FILE. EXPORT OF THIS SOFTWARE IS SUBJECT TO U.S. EXPORT CONTROL LAWS AND REGULATIONS AS SPECIFIED BY THE TERMS OF ITS EAR99 NLR CLASSIFICATION.
PLEASE READ THE LICENSE FILE FOUND IN THIS PACKAGE FOR FURTHER DETAILS.