On Demand Sentinel-1 Processing in Vertex¶
The Alaska Satellite Facility offers On Demand processing of Sentinel-1 datasets to Radiometric Terrain Correction (RTC) or Interferometric SAR (InSAR) products through Vertex, ASF's Data Search web portal. You can submit scenes to be processed into higher-level products, avoiding the cost and complexity of performing such processing yourself.
On Demand products are generated using ASF's HyP3 processing platform. Refer to the Products page for more information about the various On Demand products ASF offers.
Getting Started¶
To request On Demand products, visit ASF Data Search - Vertex and Sign In with your Earthdata Login credentials.
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Select your scenes - RTC processing is available for Sentinel-1 GRD-H and SLC scenes with a beam mode of IW. InSAR processing requires pairs of IW SLC scenes or bursts. Use the Geographic Search in Vertex to find individual scenes to submit for RTC processing, or to find reference scenes to use for generating InSAR pairs.
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Submit your request - After selecting your scenes, access the On Demand
queue to submit your processing request. You may process jobs worth up to a total of 10,000
credits per month. See our Credits page f
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Monitor your request - The On Demand Products Search Type displays your running and completed requests. New requests are typically available for download within an hour, but wait time will depend on processing load.
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Download your data - Finished On Demand products listed in the results of an On Demand Products search can be downloaded individually through your browser
or by adding them to the Download Queue
. - Refer to the Downloads page for more information about download options.
- On Demand products are retained and available to download for two weeks (14 days) after processing.
Tutorials¶
Refer to our StoryMap Tutorials for step-by-step guidance on submitting, downloading, and working with many of the different On Demand products available from ASF.
