S1Tiling

(Warning, if you're reading this on github, please note that S1Tiling is maintained on gitlab.orfeo-toolbox.org)

On demand Ortho-rectification of Sentinel-1 data on Sentinel-2 grid.

Sentinel-1 is currently the only system to provide SAR images regularly on all lands on the planet. Access to these time series of images opens an extraordinary range of applications. In order to meet the needs of a large number of users, including our needs, we have created an automatic processing chain to generate "Analysis Ready" time series for a very large number of applications.

With S1Tiling, Sentinel-1 data is ortho-rectified on the Sentinel-2 grid to promote joint use of both missions.

S1Tiling was developed within the CNES radar service, in collaboration with CESBIO, to generate time series of calibrated, ortho-rectified and filtered Sentinel-1 images on any lands on the Earth. The tool benefits for the SAR ortho-rectification application from the Orfeo Tool Box.

The resulting images are gridded to Sentinel-2 MGRS geographic reference grid S2 tiling system - zipped kml file. Thanks to EODAG, different Sentinel-1 data providers can be used like Geodes or Copernicus Data Space. It can be used on any type of platform, from a large computing cluster to a laptop (the fan will make some noise during processing). It is considerably faster than the ortho-rectification tool in ESA SNAP software with similar results and can be easily used in script form.

S1Tiling is currently used as Sentinel-1 data pre-processing for many applications, such deforestation detection in the Amazon, monitoring of rice crops in Southeast Asia or monitoring of water stocks in India. In addition, this software will be implemented in GEODES, the French portal for Earth Observation data, in order to provide SAR Ready Analysis Data to users.

The reference documentation is provided at https://s1-tiling.pages.orfeo-toolbox.org/s1tiling/latest. And the source code is always available at https://gitlab.orfeo-toolbox.org/s1-tiling/s1tiling.

Installation

S1Tiling installation has a few traps. Please read the relevant documentation regarding OTB and GDAL installation.

We highly recommand the usage of dockers, or of S1Tiling module for TREX users.

Community

Copyright

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Copyright 2022-2025 (c) CS GROUP France.

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Contributors

• Thierry KOLECK (CNES)
• Luc HERMITTE (CS Group FRANCE)
• Guillaume EYNARD-BONTEMPS (CNES)
• Julien MICHEL (CNES)
• Lesly SYLVESTRE (CNES)
• Wenceslas SAINTE MARIE (CESBIO)
• Arthur VINCENT (CESBIO)