The two tables below offer links and descriptions for key Sentinel-1 documents and tools.
Documents
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Product Specification Document, ASF | Defines the ISO-compliant XML metadata for ESA's Sentinel-1A data. |
| Sentinel-1 SAR User Guide Introduction | High-level description of instrument modes and products. Also introduction to relevant application areas, information on data distribution, product formatting, and software tools available from ESA. |
| Sentinel-1 Technical Guide | Covers an in-depth description of the mission's products and algorithms as well as details of the SAR instrument and its performance. |
| Sentinel High Level Observation Plan, Issue 2, Revision 1 | Provides the top-level operations plan of the Sentinel missions, including space and ground segments. |
| Sentinels POD Service File Format Specifications | Useful for InSAR. Users who consult this document may also want Precision State Vectors, available from ASF from 3 September 2015. The product handbook describes the products generated as part of the provisioning of the Copernicus POD Service. |
| Sentinel Document Library | The full document library is available on the ESA website. |
Tools
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Sentinel-1 Toolbox (S1TBX) | Processing tools, data product readers and writers, and a display and analysis application to support the large archive of data from ESA SAR missions, including Sentinel-1, ERS-1 and -2, and Envisat, as well as third-party SAR data from ALOS PALSAR, TerraSAR-X, COSMO-SkyMed and RADARSAT-2. |
| Powerful visualization of Sentinel product availability. Track the satellites in real time over a 3D globe, see the last and next time they have been and will be over the user's location, and more. | |
| PolSARpro | The Polarimetric SAR Data Processing and Educational Tool facilitates the accessibility and exploitation of multi-polarised SAR datasets. A wide range of tutorials and comprehensive documentation provides a grounding in polarimetry and polarimetric interferometry necessary to stimulate research and development of scientific applications; the toolbox of processing functions offers users the capability to implement them. |
| Other Tools | Other tools include a basic radar altimetry toolbox (BRAT), a data browser capable of exploring many product types in their native form (Derby), and more. |
