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What SAR imagery products (e.g., data formats) are available with Capella?

Each collection type is delivered with Complex and Detected data products, configured for rapid insight generation and easy integration with various software providers including SOCET GXP, G-EGD, ArcGIS Pro and more.

Complex

Single Look Complex
(SLC)
Sensor Independent
Complex Data (SICD)
Compensated Phase
History Data (CPHD)
  • Contains both amplitude and phase of the radar signal
  • Range-compressed
    and focused SAR
    image in slant-range
    geometry
  • Georeferenced using
    orbit data and Range Doppler projected
  • Contains both
    amplitude and phase
    of the radar signal
  • Range-compressed
    and focused SAR
    image in slant-range
    geometry
  • Contains raw phase
    history data that is
    compensated for
    hardware timing &
    platform motion

Detected

Sensor Independent
Derived Data (SIDD) 
Geocoded Ellipsoid
Corrected (GEC)
  • Contains amplitude
    information only
  • Multi-looked, range compressed and
    focused image
  • Planar Gridded Display
    (PGD) projection
  • Contains amplitude
    information only
  • Multi-looked, range compressed and
    focused SAR image
  • Geocoded and
    projected onto the
    WGS84 ellipsoid
Geocoded Terrain
Corrected (GEO)
Colorized Sub-aperture
Imagery (CSI)
  • Contains amplitude
    information only
  • Multi-looked, range compressed and
    focused SAR image
  • Geocoded and terrain height corrected using
    a high-resolution Digital
    Elevation Model (DEM)
  • Universal Transverse
    Mercator (UTM)
    and Universal Polar
    Stereographic (UPS)
    projections
  • 3-band image made
    by coloring backscatter
    received for different
    sub-apertures
  • Geocoded and terrain height corrected using
    a high-resolution Digital
    Elevation Model (DEM)
  • Universal Transverse
    Mercator (UTM)
    and Universal Polar
    Stereographic (UPS)
    projections