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Array writes "The latest release of NEST (Next ESA SAR Toolbox) 2C is now available for free at http://earth.esa.int/nest
NEST is an ESA toolbox with an integrated viewer for reading, post-processing and analysing ESA and 3rd party SAR data starting from Level 1. NEST 2C is a stable release adding the following features:
* Orthorectification for Envisat ASAR, ERS, and Radarsat2 products,
* Radiometric terrain correction for Envisat ASAR products,
* Retrocalibration with a DEM for Envisat ASAR products,
* Automatic import of 90m SRTM DEM,
* ASAR Wave-Mode product support,
* Layer Management,
* Vector Shape layers,
* Web Map Service (WMS) layers,
* NASA WorldWind integration,
* Map Projection & Subset operators,
* Ingestion and utilisation of external orbit files — DORIS VOR, POR and DELFT Precise Orbits are supported,
* Bug fixes and performance enhancements.
NEST is developed by Array Systems Computing Inc. under contract to ESA."
We mentioned NEST last fall and it is free software.
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phyr writes "The first release of NEST (Next ESA SAR Toolbox) 1C is now available for free at www.array.ca/nest
NEST is a new ESA toolbox with an integrated viewer for reading, calibration, post-processing and analysis of ESA and 3rd party SAR data starting from Level 1. Distributed as fully open source, NEST allows users to easily develop new readers and post-processors for SAR data by means of a Java Application Programming Interface (API). NEST is developed by Array Systems Computing Inc. under contract to ESA. NEST 1C includes a Display and Analysis Tool (DAT) SAR data visualisation, analysis and processing, a Graph Processing Tool (GPT) for command line execution of batch processing chains and a rich collection of readers and writers with an abstracted internal representation to allow easy and efficient access to SAR data." From the website: "The Next ESA SAR Toolbox (NEST) is used for reading, post-processing, analysing and visualising the large archive of data from ESA SAR missions including ERS-1 & 2, ENVISAT and in the future Sentinel-1. In addition, handling of products from third party missions like JERS-1, ALOS PALSAR, TerraSAR-X, Radarsat-1 & 2 and Cosmo-Skymed will be supported." Thanks for that interesting submission. We mentioned RAT and Optiks before and see also our Radar section.
NEST is a new ESA toolbox with an integrated viewer for reading, calibration, post-processing and analysis of ESA and 3rd party SAR data starting from Level 1. Distributed as fully open source, NEST allows users to easily develop new readers and post-processors for SAR data by means of a Java Application Programming Interface (API). NEST is developed by Array Systems Computing Inc. under contract to ESA. NEST 1C includes a Display and Analysis Tool (DAT) SAR data visualisation, analysis and processing, a Graph Processing Tool (GPT) for command line execution of batch processing chains and a rich collection of readers and writers with an abstracted internal representation to allow easy and efficient access to SAR data." From the website: "The Next ESA SAR Toolbox (NEST) is used for reading, post-processing, analysing and visualising the large archive of data from ESA SAR missions including ERS-1 & 2, ENVISAT and in the future Sentinel-1. In addition, handling of products from third party missions like JERS-1, ALOS PALSAR, TerraSAR-X, Radarsat-1 & 2 and Cosmo-Skymed will be supported." Thanks for that interesting submission. We mentioned RAT and Optiks before and see also our Radar section.
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