What is P-PRO On Demand?
Altimetry Services
P-PRO On Demand Resources
How to request P-PRO On Demand
What is P-PRO ON DEMAND?
The P-PRO On Demand platform is a flexible platform where you can you can handle your processing tasks and independently manage all related activities. Thanks to a user-friendly interface, you can easily go from the creation of a new task passing by an overview on tasks status, to the download of results.
Key Features
Use P-PRO ON DEMAND independently and easily
Given its flexibility, P-PRO On Demand enables you to independently go from the submission of a processing task to the download of results with ease through its intuitive interface.
Perform small processings with customizable options
P-PRO On Demand is a powerful solution to perform multiple tests and small processing tasks with the possibility to configure the processor input parameters.
L1b & L2 altimetry processors ready for use
P-PRO On Demand comes with integrated advanced L1b & L2 altimetry processors not available in official processing chains, enabling Sentinel-3 LRMC, RDSAR, SAR and Cryosat-2 LRMC, RDSAR, SAR & SARin & FF-SAR data processing.
Get processing results as soon as they are available
With P-PRO On Demand, it is possible to monitor the status of your processing task and download results as soon as the task is completed.
Altimetry services
P-PRO On Demand comes with the following Altimetry services integrated and ready for use.
In case you are unsure on which one is the right one for your needs, you can contact our Technical Support Team at support@earthconsole.eu and cc altimetry.info@esa.int and we will be glad to support you.
ALES+ SAR RETRACKER – TUM
ALES+ SAR Retracker – TUM 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.
FULLY-FOCUSED SAR FOR CRYOSAT-2 – ARESYS SRL
FF-SAR (Fully Focused SAR) for CryoSat-2 by Aresys is a web service that provides the capability to process on line and on demand CryoSat-2 SAR data, from FBR data products to Level1b FF-SAR products.
SARvatore for CryoSat-2
SARvatore (SAR Versatile Altimetric TOolkit for Research and Exploitation) for CryoSat-2 is a Software Processor Prototype developed by ESA/ESRIN (REF1) to experiment with SAR processing from L1A (FBR) to L2 using the SAMOSA retracking model. It can be used over open ocean or coastal zones, as well as over more difficult targets such as rivers, lakes, and sea-ice. This toolkit is made available to the user community as an EarthConsoleTM P-PRO Service. The toolkit takes in input Cryosat-2 SAR FBR data products and produces in output geophysical L2 products in standard NetCDF format. This output can be manipulated and visualized with BRAT (the Broadview Altimetry Radar Toolbox).
SARINvatore for CryoSat-2
SARINvatore (SARIN Versatile Altimetric TOolkit for Research and Exploitation) for CryoSat-2 is a Software Processor Prototype developed by ESA/ESRIN to experiment with SARin processing from L1A (FBR) to L2 using the SAMOSA retracking model. It can be used over open ocean or coastal zones, as well as over more difficult targets such as rivers, lakes, and sea-ice. This toolkit is made available to the user community as EarthConsole® P-PRO Service. The toolkit takes in input Cryosat-2 SARin FBR data products and produces in output geophysical L2 products in standard NetCDF format. This output can be manipulated and visualized with BRAT (the Broadview Altimetry Radar Toolbox).
SARvatore for Sentinel-3
SARvatore (SAR Versatile Altimetric TOolkit for Research and Exploitation) for Sentinel-3 is a Prototype 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. This toolkit, similar to the one developed for CryoSat-2, is made available to the user community as an EarthConsole® P-PRO Service. The toolkit takes in input L1A Sentinel-3 SAR Altimetry data products and produces in output L2 data products in standard NetCDF format. The content of these output files can be manipulated, displayed and further post-processed with BRAT (the Broadview Altimetry Radar Toolbox).
TUDaBO SAR-RDSAR – U.Bonn
TUDaBO SAR-RDSAR – U.Bonn is a processor prototype developed by C. Buchhaupt and L. Fenoglio-Marc at TU Darmstadt and U 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.
SAMPY for CryoSat-2
The P-PRO SAMPY processor service for CryoSat-2 is a web service that provides the capability to process on-line and on demand CryoSat-2 SAR data, from GOP Level-1B SAR data products to enhanced GOP Level-2 SAR products including SAMOSA+ retracker estimates & quality flags (pu, ssh_unc, swh, oceanlike_flag, misfit). It has been developed within the ESA Cryo-TEMPO project and enhanced by the ESA-ESRIN Altimetry Team to append the output of the SAMOSA+ retracker to official CryoSat-2 Level-2 GOP products.
P-PRO On Demand Resources
Wikis, guides and altimetry customized resources browsable by topic to help you in any phase of your on-demand processing.
How to request P-PRO On Demand
By default, users can request a standard 500 processing hours block. Such an amount of hours is assumed to cover almost all on-demand processing needs per user on a quarterly basis.
For special needs, you can exceed the standard 500-hour block and request up to 2200 processing hours.
Please follow these steps to request P-PRO On Demand:
Step 1
Fill in the P-PRO ON DEMAND request form on the EarthConsole® Webapp
Fill-in the P-PRO ON DEMAND service request form. In the form you will be requested to specify whether you want to request ESA sponsorship or not. Your selection will imply that you are choosing one of the following options:
Step 2
Option 1 “Sponsorship Request via ESA NoR”
If you have a research, development, or pre-commercial project, you may be eligible to submit a sponsoring request via the ESA NoR portal. If the sponsorship request will be approved, this would cover the cost of P-PRO On-Demand. If you select this option during the compilation of the EarthConsole® WebApp form, we will prepare the NoR sponsorship form for you and share it with you for your approval. More information about the NoR sponsorship application process is available in this Step-by-Step Manual.
Option 2 “Unsponsored Service Activation”
Following the request of the service via the EarthConsole® Webapp, we will send you a quotation of the service for your approval. Possible discounts for research, development, pre-commercial and educational projects can be negotiated on a case-by-case basis.
Step 3
For Option 1, in case of acceptance of your NoR Sponsorship request, we will contact you with further details about how to start using P-PRO ON DEMAND.
For Option 2, following the receipt of the payment, we will activate the P-PRO ON DEMAND service.
