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 ...