Alaska Satellite FacilitySAR Training Processor Installation Guide

Obtaining and Installing the Tool

The latest ASF SAR Training Processor can be downloaded from the ASF web site, at http://www.asf.alaska.edu. On that page, select the option to "Get SAR Tools". This page lists all of the tools currently supported by ASF, and you'll see the SAR Training Processor (STP) listed there with a link to download the tool. Before downloading, you'll be asked on which operating system you intend to run STP.

How you install the tool depends on which operating system you selected. Windows packages come with an installer, Linux packages come as an RPM, and Source packages contain source code with an autoconf-style configure script.

Windows Installation

The Windows package contains just a single file, the installer.

To install, you just need to open up the archive file that you downloaded (double-clicking on it will open it), and then run the installer program contained within.

After installation, you will have a start-menu shortcut that you can use to run the SAR Training Processor.

Source Installation

After you've downloaded and extracted the archive, you need to compile the tools before they can be installed. To do this, make sure you're in the asf_tools directory, then:

./configure --prefix=[[installation location]] make make install

You will need permissions to put files into [[installation location]]! The default is /usr/local.

For example, to install the tools in "asf_tools" folder of your home directory:

./configure --prefix=~/asf_tools make make install
Contacting UsIf you have any questions or comments about this software, we would love to hear from you!

Alaska Satellite Facility
Geophysical Institute
University of Alaska Fairbanks
P.O. Box 757320
Fairbanks, AK 99775-7320
Email:uso@asf.alaska.edu

About Software Tools

The Alaska Satellite Facility develops and enhances software in order to simplify the use of SAR data for our community of researchers and operational agencies.

System Requirements

CPU: 1GHz or greater

Memory: 1 GB or more

Disk space: 100MB for installation. For processing please allow roughly 5 times the size of the largest image to be processed.

Convert to Vector: This program is small and should easily run on any computer running a pentium chip or greater.

Other Software Tools

This is a list of links to software developed by agencies outside of ASF that may be of use.

Free/Open Source Tools

ROI_PAC - The Repeat Orbit Interferometry PACkage is used to process synthetic aperture radar data and produce differential interferograms. The package is managed by researchers at JPL and Caltech in conjunction with members of the scientific community.

RAT - Radar Tools (or RAT)is a powerful open-source software tool for processing SAR remote sensing data.

BEAM - BEAM is a toolbox for viewing, analyzing and processing of remote sensing data.

PolSARPro - The Polarimetric SAR Data Processing and Educational Tool aims to facilitate the accessibility and exploitation of multi-polarized SAR datasets.

GeoSage's HighView - HighView is the unique image fusion tool for both advanced image-pansharpening and adaptive image stretching.

ERDAS ER Viewer - The ERDAS ER Viewer is an easy-to-use image viewer featuring interactive roaming and zooming with very large JPEG 2000 and ECW files.

ERDAS ViewFinder - ERDAS ViewFinder is a viewer for quickly displaying a variety of geographic imagery (including 16-bit data), rapidly reprojecting different data types into the same projection system, displaying multiple images in a single viewer, and working in multiple open viewers, at the same time.

ExpressView Browser Plug-in (MrSID) - ExpressView Browser Plug-in (formerly MrSID Browser Plug-in) gives standard Windows Web browsers the ability to natively view MrSID and JPEG2000 images.

Geomatica FreeView - Geomatica FreeView is a flexible data viewing tool supporting over 100 raster and vector formats for loading, viewing, selection, and enhancement.

Commercial Tools

Geomatica - Geomatica is a single, integrated software system for remote sensing and image processing.

GAMMA - The GAMMA SAR and Interferometry Software is a collection of programs that allows processing of SAR, interferometric SAR (InSAR) and differential interferometric SAR (DInSAR) data for airborne and spaceborne SAR systems.

ENVI - ENVI provides advanced, user-friendly tools to read, explore, prepare, analyze and share information extracted from all types of imagery.

ERDAS IMAGINE - ERDAS IMAGINE performs advanced remote sensing analysis and spatial modeling to create new information.