phase-o-matic 0.0.4

InSAR Atmospheric Delay Corrections with ERA5.

phase-o-matic

Python package for calculating Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar phase delays from ERA5 atmospheric models. Utilizes xarray to easily download, processes, and add phase delays to netcdfs of InSAR Phase.

Useful publications for this repo:

• Doin, M.-P., Lasserre, C., Peltzer, G., Cavalié, O., and Doubre, C.: Corrections of stratified tropospheric delays in SAR interferometry: Validation with global atmospheric models, J Appl Geophys, 69, 35–50, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jappgeo.2009.03.010, 2009.

• Jolivet, R., Agram, P. S., Lin, N. Y., Simons, M., Doin, M., Peltzer, G., and Li, Z.: Improving InSAR geodesy using Global Atmospheric Models, J Geophys Res Solid Earth, 119, 2324–2341, https://doi.org/10.1002/2013jb010588, 2014.

• Hu, Z. and Mallorquí, J. J.: An Accurate Method to Correct Atmospheric Phase Delay for InSAR with the ERA5 Global Atmospheric Model, Remote Sens-basel, 11, 1969, https://doi.org/10.3390/rs11171969, 2019.

This code and ERA data registration instructions are adapted from the awesome atmospheric phase delay repo: https://github.com/insarlab/PyAPS.

Installation

Pip installation

# not implemented yet. Please just add the home directory of this repo to your path
pip install phase_o_matic

ERA5 Data Registration

ERA5 is atmospheric data distributed by the Copernicus Climate Change Service. You must register for an account and save the provided locally where you are downloading.

1. Create an account with the Copernicus Climate Data Servce.
2. Next create a new file in your home directory called .cdsapirc

cd ~
nano .cdsapirc

with the following text:

url: https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/api/v2
key: 12345*abcdefghij-134-abcdefgadf-82391b9d3f

Where you have replaced 12345 with your previous user ID and the part behind the colon (abcdefghij-134-abcdefgadf-82391b9d3f) with your personal API key. More details

3. Make sure you have accepted the data licences Terms on the ECMWF website

Usage

This example usage is also available in notebooks/usage.ipynb

import sys
import xarray as xr
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

# this relative path assumes you are in the notebooks directory
sys.path.append('..')
from phase_o_matic import presto_phase_delay

# this relative path assumes you are in the notebooks directory
# the dem_datset is a netcdf that should have a 'dem' variable and an
# incidence angle data variable 'inc' in radians
dem_dataset = xr.open_dataset('../pyAPS_data/pyaps_geom.nc')

work_dir = '../pyAPS_data/example'

t1 = presto_phase_delay(date = '2020-01-03', geometry = dem_dataset, work_dir = work_dir, wavelength = 0.238403545)
t2 = presto_phase_delay(date = '2020-01-10', geometry = dem_dataset, work_dir = work_dir, wavelength = 0.238403545)

delay_change = t2.isel(time = 0)['delay'] - t1.isel(time = 0)['delay']

fig, axes = plt.subplots(1, 2, figsize = (12, 9))
delay_change.plot(ax = axes[0], vmax = 0, vmin = -4)
dem_dataset['dem'].plot(ax = axes[1], vmin = 0, vmax = 2000)
plt.show()

Citations

If you end up using the ERA5 data please cite this repo:

Keskinen, Z. (2023) Phase-o-matic: InSAR atmospheric delay calculations, https://github.com/ZachKeskinen/phase-o-matic/. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7926686

and the ERA5 data citation:

Hersbach, H., Bell, B., Berrisford, P., Biavati, G., Horányi, A., Muñoz Sabater, J., Nicolas, J., Peubey, C., Radu, R., Rozum, I., Schepers, D., Simmons, A., Soci, C., Dee, D., Thépaut, J-N. (2023): ERA5 hourly data on single levels from 1940 to present. Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) Climate Data Store (CDS), DOI: 10.24381/cds.adbb2d47