PyRate documentation

This is the documentation for the PyRate software.

PyRate is a Python tool for estimating the velocity and cumulative displacement time-series of surface movements for every pixel in a stack of geocoded unwrapped interferograms generated by Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) processing. PyRate exploits distributed scatterers using a “Small Baseline Subset” (SBAS) processing strategy and currently supports input data in the GAMMA or ROI_PAC software formats. Additionally, the European Space Agency SNAP software version 8 has a “PyRate export” capability that prepares SNAP output data in the GAMMA format for use with PyRate.

Note

  • Support and development of ROI_PAC has been discontinued.

  • ROI_PAC support in PyRate will be deprecated in a future release.

The PyRate project started in 2012 as a partial Python translation of “Pirate”, a Matlab tool developed by the University of Leeds and the Guangdong University of Technology.

Feedback

If you have any suggestions or questions about PyRate please email the Geoscience Australia InSAR team.

If you encounter any errors or problems with PyRate, please let us know! Open an Issue in the GitHub repository.

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