Simplify frequently used workflows with a rich library of professional synthetic aperture radar (SAR) processing tools with PHOTOMOD Radar combined with a cloudeo Workbench. Use SAR imagery for tasks in land cover monitoring; change detection; sea wave, ship, and oil slick detection; for generation of digital terrain models; or the estimation of subsidence with millimeter accuracy. With PHOTOMOD Radar, take advantage of the unique capabilities of modern SAR sensors.
Product Description
PHOTOMOD Radar is well-tested for TerraSAR-X, Sentinel-1, ALOS, and other top-rate sensors. This software can help exploit unique information and benefit from SAR datasets' day and night imaging capabilities. If you want to access highly automated and easy-to-use Digital Elevation Model generation tools, subsidence estimation, or maritime analysis, select one of these application-specific packages. With the Interferometry package, users may process and work with SAR data acquired in interferometric mode. The Maritime analysis package includes oil slick detection, ship detection, and sea wave analysis tools. The full radar suite includes all packages for basic and advanced SAR processing.
PHOTOMOD Radar software combined with the scalable cloudeo Workbench brings flexible pricing and easy access to remote sensing imagery. Configure your PHOTOMOD Radar according to your individual needs. Bring your own data and programs or add premium imagery and software from the cloudeo store. Programs on the Workbench are readily installed and automatically updated without extra costs. We recommend using the Workbench Standard or Standard PLUS with PHOTOMOD Radar.
For an academic discount, please refer to the PHOTOMOD Radar - Academia.
Please note that this software requires a Workbench
The beauty of SAR
The independence from day and night and the penetration through clouds makes SAR best suited for reliable and frequent monitoring of the land surface and oceans.
Unique SAR information provides exciting insights into the terrain. With the tools of PHOTOMOD Radar, you can generate DEMs, detect subsidences in mm accuracy, estimate wind speed across water bodies, and so much more.
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Interferometry
The Interferometric Processor enables processing SAR data acquired in interferometric mode (3-path and 4-path interferometry). The differential SAR interferometric data set consists of 3 or 4 images, each of them making an interferometric pair to every other image of this set. Processing images in pairs makes it possible to get the differential interferogram, the picture of phase changes (interferograms) over a certain period of time. Considering each image's geometry in the set, you can re-calculate phase values of the differential interferogram into field-of-relief displacement, which occurs between the processed pairs' observations. Such changes can be caused both by vertical and horizontal motion on the underlying surface. As the differential interferogram values directly depend on SAR wavelength, displacements on the surface can be defined on the millimeter scale.
Maritime analysis
The Maritime analysis includes Oil slick detection, ship detection, and sea waves analysis.
- Oil slick detection works against the background of a homogeneous sea surface. The results are raster binary images with detected slicks (masked) and a set of the slick's parameters (extent, geographic position). The result of the processing can be exported as a GeoTIFF. Unique analytics within the oil slick detector retrieves the results automatically. In case of more complex scenarios, the user has the option to adjust the process and optimize the results with parameter variations.
- Ship detection is designated for processing spaceborne radar images acquired over sea and ocean surfaces. It identifies ships and evaluates their most valuable parameters, such as speed, size, and cartographical coordinates. The output of the process is a vector layer.SHP format marks detected ships and a text file with a list of detected ships and evaluated parameters. In many cases, seagoing ships are detected automatically - however, an operator can manually edit the list of detected objects and mark objects of interest.
- Sea waves analysis estimates the spatial period, the direction of propagation, and waves' height. Based on the parameters, the software has the ability to create a map of the spatial distribution of wind fields. The analysis is based on the hypothesis that the Pierson-Moskowitz distribution can describe the spectrum of sea waves. The output is a set of raster maps that outline the distribution of the waves' spatial period and propagation direction, height, and velocity of the wind close to the sea surface.
Full radar suite
The full radar suite includes interferometric processing as well as maritime analysis, with the full flexibility of basic and advanced SAR processing.
Please note
Individual product configurations are possible beyond the standard options. Just contact us.
- If you would like to explore other PHOTOMOD modules, please request a quote.
- For an academia discount, visit our product PHOTOMOD Radar - Academia.
This software requires a Workbench. We recommend a Standard, Standard Plus or Professional Workbench. Please include it in your shopping cart before checking out.
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