Thomas Jones

Thomas Jones


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Academic Career Length

8Years (2019-Present)

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5 July 2019 in Data
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JTJohn Truckenbrodt
John Truckenbrodt
TFTerri Freemantle
Terri Freemantle
CWChris Williams
Chris Williams
TJThomas Jones
Thomas Jones
DSDavid Small
David Small
Gregory GiulianiGregory Giuliani
Gregory Giuliani
This study aims at assessing the feasibility of automatically producing analysis-ready radiometrically terrain-corrected (RTC) Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) gamma nought backscatter data for ingestion into a data cube for use in a large spatio-temporal data environment. As such, this study investigates the analysis readiness of different openly available digital elevation models (DEMs) and the capability of the software solutions SNAP and GAMMA in terms of overall usability as well as backscatter data quality. To achieve this, the study builds on the Python library pyroSAR for providing the workflow implementation test bed and provides a Jupyter notebook for transparency and future reproducibility of performed analyses. Two test sites were selected, over the Alps and Fiji, to be able to assess regional differences and support the establishment of the Swiss and Common Sensing Open Data cubes respectively.