These processors are integrated into EarthConsole®, offering either bulk (P-PRO) or on-demand (P-PRO ON DEMAND) processing options depending on the service.
In case the processor you need is not featured in this list, you can ask us to integrate it on the platform via the I-APP (Application Integration) service.
To learn more on this laboratory and how to request access to these processing services, visit and register for free to the Altimetry Virtual Lab.
Owner: Technical University of Munich
ALES+ SAR (Adaptive Leading Edge Subwaveform retracker, version +, for SAR) is a subwaveform retracker for open ocean and coastal zone SAR altimetry data. It adopts a simplified version of the Brown-Hayne functional form (which is the functional form for pulse-limited altimetry) as an empirical retracker to track the leading edge of the waveform. A specific sea state bias correction is also computed and shall be used when correcting the estimated range to compute the sea surface height. It provides the capability to process either official CryoSat-2 L1b products or Sentinel-3 WAT L2 products to produce ALES+ SAR L2 NetCDF products.
• Available for bulk and on-demand processing •
Owner: Aresys s.r.l.
The FF-SAR (Fully Focused SAR) service is a web platform that provides the capability to process on line and on demand CryoSat-2 and Sentinel-3 SAR data, from FBR data products until FF-SAR Level1b products. The service is based on AREALT-FF1 Processor Prototype that has been developed by Aresys in the framework of ESA contracts for Sentinel-6 and CryoSat. The AREALT-FF1 Processor produces FF-SAR altimetry waveforms exploiting the focusing technique in the 2D transformed frequency domain proposed in https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/10/12/1943.
• Available for bulk and on-demand processing •
Owner: European Space Agency (Cryo-TEMPO project)
Python implementation of the SAMOSA+ retracker developed within the ESA Cryo-TEMPO project enhanced by the ESA altimetry team to append the output of SAMOSA+ retracker to official L2 GOP products.
• Available for bulk and on-demand processing •
Owner: European Space Agency
The SARvatore (SAR Versatile Altimetric Toolkit for Ocean Research & Exploitation) for CryoSat-2, is a web platform that provides the capability to process on line and on demand CryoSat-2 SAR data, from L1a (FBR) data products until SAR Level-2 geophysical data products. The service is based on SARvatore Processor Prototype that has been developed entirely by Salvatore Dinardo in the scope of the EOP-SER Altimetry Team (Salvatore Dinardo, Bruno Manuel Lucas, Jerome Benveniste) in ESA-ESRIN. The processor has been further upgraded (SARINvatore) to accept in input L1a (FBR) SARIN data products and build SARIN Level-2 geophysical data products as well.
• Available for bulk and on-demand processing •
Owner: European Space Agency
The SARvatore (SAR Versatile Altimetric Toolkit for Ocean Research & Exploitation) for CryoSat-2, is a web platform that provides the capability to process on line and on demand CryoSat-2 SAR data, from L1a (FBR) data products until SAR Level-2 geophysical data products. The service is based on SARvatore Processor Prototype that has been developed entirely by Salvatore Dinardo in the scope of the EOP-SER Altimetry Team (Salvatore Dinardo, Bruno Manuel Lucas, Jerome Benveniste) in ESA-ESRIN. The processor has been further upgraded (SARINvatore) to accept in input L1a (FBR) SARIN data products and build SARIN Level-2 geophysical data products as well.
• Available for bulk and on-demand processing •
Owner: European Space Agency
SARvatore for Sentinel-3 is a software processor developed by ESA/ESRIN to experiment with Sentinel-3 SAR Altimetry processing exploiting the SAMOSA retracking model and the Delay-Doppler principle. It can be used over open ocean or coastal zone, as well as over more difficult targets such as rivers, lakes, and sea-ice. The toolkit takes in input L1A Sentinel-3 SAR Altimetry data products and produces in output L2 data products in standard NetCDF format.
• Available for bulk and on-demand processing •
Owner: University of Bonn
TUDaBo SAR-RDSAR is a processor prototype developed by C. Buchhaupt and L. Fenoglio-Marc at the Technical University of Darmstadt and the University of Bonn to experiment with SAR mode data from L1A (FBR) to L2. Reduced SAR, unfocused SAR, and LRMC data can be generated for both CryoSat-2 and Sentinel-3A. For each mode, dedicated signal processing options and retrackers are available, which allow the user to experiment with different configurations. All L1B/L2 products for reduced SAR, unfocused SAR, and LRMC have the same geolocations and time tags, allowing a direct comparison without interpolation.
• Available for bulk and on-demand processing •
To learn more on this laboratory and how to request access to these processing services, visit and register for free to the Heritage Missions Virtual Lab.
Owner: IREA/CNR
The Parallel Small BAseline Subset (P-SBAS) is an Advanced InSAR technique which implements the SBAS algorithm. It allows the generation of Earth’s surface deformation time series and, more generally, interferometric products.
It emerged as particularly effective to investigate ground displacements both in natural and anthropogenic hazard contexts, such as volcanoes, earthquakes, landslides and human-induced deformation due to mining activities, fluids exploitation, and large infrastructures construction.
• Available for bulk and on-demand processing •
Owner: Marcello Passaro – Deutsches Geodätisches Forschungsinstitut – Technische Universität München
ALES (Adaptive Leading Edge Subwaveform retracker) is a subwaveform retracker for open ocean and coastal zone altimetry data. It adopts a simplified version of the Brown-Hayne functional form (which is the functional form for pulse-limited altimetry) as an empirical retracker to track the leading edge of the waveform. A specific sea state bias correction is also computed and shall be used when correcting the estimated range to compute the sea surface height. It provides the capability to process ENVISAT RA-2 SGDR (Sensor Geophysical Data Record) products to produce ALES L2 NetCDF products.
• Available for bulk processing •
Owner: Marcello Passaro – Deutsches Geodätisches Forschungsinstitut – Technische Universität München
ALES (Adaptive Leading Edge Subwaveform retracker) is a subwaveform retracker for open ocean and coastal zone altimetry data. It adopts a simplified version of the Brown-Hayne functional form (which is the functional form for pulse-limited altimetry) as an empirical retracker to track the leading edge of the waveform. A specific sea state bias correction is also computed and shall be used when correcting the estimated range to compute the sea surface height. It provides the capability to process ERS-2 RA SGDR (Sensor Geophysical Data Record) products to produce ALES L2 NetCDF products.
• Available for bulk processing •
Owner: Progressive Systems
The Analysis Ready Data (ARD) for MERIS FR service is used to produce ARD for large MERIS datasets through an orchestrator based on SNAP graphs and python scripts. The tool is able to automatically download MERIS products from the ESA dissemination service and to output a subset (whose geographical extension is passed as a parameter) collocated per pixel with respect to a master image (raster or re-projected onto a CRS). The produced dataset can be used for AI applications and multi-temporal analysis where each image needs to be georeferenced and comparable at the pixel level.
• Available for bulk processing •
To request access to these processing services, submit your request via the EarthConsole® webapp.
Owner: IREA – CNR
The Parallel Small BAseline Subset (P-SBAS) is an Advanced InSAR technique which implements the SBAS algorithm. It allows the generation of Earth’s surface deformation time series and, more generally, interferometric products.
It emerged as particularly effective to investigate ground displacements both in natural and anthropogenic hazard contexts, such as volcanoes, earthquakes, landslides and human-induced deformation due to mining activities, fluids exploitation, and large infrastructures construction.
• Available for bulk and on-demand processing •
Owner: European Space Agency
Sen2Cor is a processor for Sentinel-2 Level 2A product generation and formatting; it performs the atmospheric, terrain and cirrus correction of Top-Of-Atmosphere Level 1C input data. Available versions: 2.9.0, 2.8.0 and 2.5.3.
• Available for bulk and on-demand processing •
The S-1 Amplitude change on-demand processing service provides RGB composite of backscattering from a pair Sentinel-1 GRD IW and EW products (e.g. pre- and post-event) processed in SNAP.
• Available for bulk and on-demand processing •
