Geophysics Deskwork

Scott's Non-Field Notebook

Obtaining DEMs for ROI_PAC

This post and compares various Digital Elevation Model (DEM) sources and provides from useful scripts for working with ROI_PAC. ROI_PAC processing is commonly done with SRTM digital elevation data. The SRTM mission was flown on the space shuttle Endeavor 02/2000 and in a mere 11 days acquired data to ...

Roiview on Mac

Visualizing ROI_PAC Output

ROI_PAC outputs many images files in a few different binary formats (install ROI_PAC post]). You can view these files many ways, bust there are two programs designed specifically with ROI_PAC in mind: MDX and Roiview. Since MDX is standard, I've described installing it on Mac in ...

Install MDX on Mac

MDX is the go-to visualization software for ROI_PAC files, and this post explains how to get it working on a Mac. You can see about installing alternative software on this post

MDX is tricky to obtain,,, here is one place.

You'll need some dated open motif libraries to run ...

ROI_PAC ON_MAC

What is it?

ROI_PAC is software for processing Interferometeric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) data. For general info about InSAR see this. The last major ROI_PAC update was in August 2009, since development focus seems to have moved to ISCE software. Nevertheless, it is still widely used and will likely continue ...

Setting up Python for Scientific Computing on a Mac

The posts on this website are mostly related to my work as graduate student in geophysics. I was looking for a medium to easily keep records of my work and share computer code with colleagues, and naturally have settled into a combination of Github and this weblog (which coincidentally is ...