Unsupervised parallel SBAS-DInSAR chain for massive and systematic Sentinel-1 data processing

Abstract

In this work we present an efficient interferometric processing chain, based on the advanced DInSAR algorithm referred to as Parallel Small BAseline Subset (P-SBAS), for the generation of Sentinel-1A (S1A) Interferometric Wide Swath deformation time-series, which is able to exploit distributed computing architectures. The presented S1A P-SBAS processing chain has been successfully implemented within the ESA Geohazard Exploitation Platform to provide an on-demand automatic service for the unsupervised generation of P-SBAS displacement time-series. To give an idea of the effectiveness of the presented S1A processing chain, as a preliminary result we show a 12-days interferometric analysis at continental scale, carried out by exploiting 150 S1A interferometric pairs acquired over Europe for an overall covered area of about 7,500,000 km2.