InSAR Principles
NASA (NISAR Handbook) https://nisar.jpl.nasa.gov/files/nisar/NISAR_Science_Users_Handbook.pdf
ESA https://www.esa.int/esapub/tm/tm19/TM-19_ptA.pdf
Geospatial Information Authority of Japan (GSI) https://vldb.gsi.go.jp/sokuchi/sar/qanda/qanda-e.html
NASA (SAR Handbook in forest and biomass monitoring) https://servirglobal.net/Global/Articles/Article/2674/sar-handbook-comprehensive-methodologies-for-forest-monitoring-and-biomass-estimation
SAR Scenes
Just need to use ASF Vertex to access Sentinel-1, ALOS-1, ENVISAT, etc. ASF Vertex https://vertex.daac.asf.alaska.edu
X-band:
TerraSAR-X Airbus https://terrasar-x-archive.terrasar.com TerraSAR-X Science Service System (Proposal Submission) https://sss.terrasar-x.dlr.de/
C-band:
Sentinel-1 Sentinel Copernicus Open Access Hub https://scihub.copernicus.eu/dhus/#/home
Sentinel POD Precise Orbit Ephemerides https://qc.sentinel1.eo.esa.int/aux_poeorb/
ESA Catalog https://earth.esa.int/eogateway/catalog
ENVISAT and ERS1&2 https://esar-ds.eo.esa.int/oads/access/collection
ENVISAT Auxiliary Data https://earth.esa.int/eogateway/instruments/asar/auxiliary-data
ERA1&2 Auxiliary Data https://earth.esa.int/eogateway/instruments/sar-ers/auxiliary-data
L-band:
ALOS-2 PASCO Corporation http://en.alos-pasco.com
ALOS-2 (account required) https://auig2.jaxa.jp/ips/home
ALOS-1 https://alos-palsar-ds.eo.esa.int/oads/access/collection
UAVSAR https://uavsar.jpl.nasa.gov
GNSS | GPS
UNAVCO http://www.unavco.org/data/gps-gnss/data-access-methods/dai2/app/dai2.html#
ftp://data-out.unavco.org/pub/products/velocity/
USGS https://earthquake.usgs.gov/monitoring/gps
Nevada Geodetic Laboratory http://geodesy.unr.edu/ (right panel of the homepage has additional information that may be useful)
GPS Tools (courtesy of Dr. Kathryn Materna) https://github.com/kmaterna/GNSS_TimeSeries_Viewers
Digital Elevation Model - DEM
Free:
SRTM DEM (30 m; page bottom for SRTM V2) https://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/srtm/
| Copernicus Global Digital Elevation Models (30 m | 90 m) https://dataspace.copernicus.eu/browser/ |
TanDEM-X DEM (90 m) https://download.geoservice.dlr.de/TDM90/
TanDEM-X DEM (12 m with request/proposal) https://tandemx-science.dlr.de/cgi-bin/wcm.pl?page=TDM-Proposal-Submission-Procedure
ASTER GDEM (30 m) https://asterweb.jpl.nasa.gov/gdem.asp
USGS NED https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/usgs-national-elevation-dataset-ned
USGS 3DEP (3D Elevation Program) https://www.usgs.gov/3d-elevation-program
Paid:
| ALOS World 3D (AW3D) (2.5 m | 5 m) https://www.eorc.jaxa.jp/ALOS/en/dataset/aw3d30/aw3d30_e.htm |
LiDAR DEM
Washington DNR, LiDAR DEM in Washington http://lidarportal.dnr.wa.gov
PSLC, LiDAR DEM over the Pacific Northwest http://pugetsoundlidar.ess.washington.edu/lidardata/index.html
OpenTopography, LiDAR DEM over the US https://opentopography.org
Aerial Imagery
U.S.:
NAIP https://datagateway.nrcs.usda.gov/GDGHome_DirectDownLoad.aspx
Globe:
Sentinel-2 Sentinel Copernicus Open Access Hub https://scihub.copernicus.eu/dhus/#/home
Landsat USGS Earth Explorer https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/
Precipitation
Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) https://gpm.nasa.gov/data/directory
ECMWF Reanalysis v5 (ERA5) https://www.ecmwf.int/en/forecasts/dataset/ecmwf-reanalysis-v5
| National | Global Land Data Assimilation System (NLDAS | GLDAS) https://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov/datasets/ |
Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/cdsapp#!/dataset/insitu-gridded-observations-global-and-regional?tab=form
Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) https://gpm.nasa.gov/data/directory
Climate Hazards group Infrared Precipitation with Stations (CHIRPS) https://data.chc.ucsb.edu/products/CHIRPS-2.0/
Center Merged Analysis of Precipitation (CMAP) https://researchdata.edu.au/national-centers-environmental-precipitation-cmap/15209
Global precipitation climatology project (GPCP) https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/data/global-precipitation-climatology-project-gpcp-monthly/access/
China Meteorological Forcing Dataset (CMFD) https://data.tpdc.ac.cn/en/data/8028b944-daaa-4511-8769-965612652c49
China 1-km Resolution Monthly Precipitation Dataset (1901-2022)https://data.tpdc.ac.cn/zh-hans/data/faae7605-a0f2-4d18-b28f-5cee413766a2
China Regional Surface Meteorological Element Driven Dataset (1979-2018)https://data.tpdc.ac.cn/zh-hans/data/8028b944-daaa-4511-8769-965612652c49
Other Hydroclimatic Data
WRCC https://wrcc.dri.edu/summary/
NCDC, NOAA https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cdo-web/datasets/
NRCS https://www.wcc.nrcs.usda.gov/index.html
https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/site/national/home/
MesoWest https://mesowest.utah.edu
California Data Exchange Center http://cdec.water.ca.gov/snow_rain.html
PRISM http://www.prism.oregonstate.edu/
Soil Moisture:
| NLDAS | GLDAS https://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov/datasets/ |
SMAP http://nsidc.org/data/smap/smap-data.html
Water Level and Water Discharge
USGS https://waterdata.usgs.gov/usa/nwis/
Utah Geological Survey https://apps.geology.utah.gov/gwdp/
Sea Levels
NASA Sea Level Change Protal https://sealevel.nasa.gov/data_tools/1
NASA Sea Level Projection https://sealevel.nasa.gov/ipcc-ar6-sea-level-projection-tool?type=global
Gravity
USGS https://mrdata.usgs.gov/gravity/bouguer/
Tectonics
Earthquake Catalogs:
USGS https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/search
University of Utah https://quake.utah.edu/regional-info/earthquake-catalogs
Earthquake Decluster:
ZMAP (based on matlab) http://www.seismo.ethz.ch/en/research-and-teaching/products-software/software/ZMAP/
Faults:
China:
http://activefault-datacenter.cn (Interactive Map Only)
U.S.:
USGS (some are inferred) https://earthquake.usgs.gov/hazards/qfaults/
California:
California Department of Conservation https://maps.conservation.ca.gov/cgs/fam/
Geology
China:
National Geological Map Data http://www.ngac.org.cn/DataSpecial/geomap.html
China Land Area 1:250,000 Scale Structural Map Spatial Database (Wider Spatial Coverage) http://dcc.ngac.org.cn/cn/geologicalData/details/doi/10.23650/data.A.2018.NGA131703.K1.1.1.V1
National 1:200,000 Digital Geological Map (public version) spatial database (limited coverage) http://dcc.ngac.org.cn/cn/geologicalData/details/doi/10.23650/data.A.2019.NGA120157.K1.1.1.V1
Generalized Geology of the Far East (geo3al) (1:5,000,000) https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/item/60abc7f9d34ea221ce51e5ee
Global:
Global Geological Provinces and Tectonic Plates https://github.com/dhasterok/global_tectonics
Other GIS Shapefiles
Utah Automated Geographic Reference Center (aquifers, streams, faults, etc. in Utah) https://gis.utah.gov/data/geoscience/
Resource and Environment Science and Data Center https://www.resdc.cn
Permafrost distribution map in Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (2017) https://data.tpdc.ac.cn/zh-hans/data/0231c972-8460-4691-a187-70e4cc356f60
Geoid Height Calculator
Spatial Reference
Remote Sensing Data Analysis
Custom Scripts https://custom-scripts.sentinel-hub.com/
Strain Calculation
Matlab Scripts for 2D (courtesy of Dr. R. Mallick and Dr. K. Bradley) https://doi.org/10.21979/N9/FLOXET
Mac APP SSPX for 2D/3D (courtesy of Dr. N. Cardozoa and Dr. R.W. Allmendinger)
Analytical and semianalytical solutions for the displacements
Courtesy of Dr. S. Barbot, Dr. J.D.P. Moore, and Dr. V. Lambert https://bitbucket.org/sbarbot/bssa-2016237/
Geoplot Tool in Matlab
https://www.eoas.ubc.ca/~rich/map.html
Cool brief educational videos and documents
Subduction Zone Processes (courtesy of Wada’s Lab) https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=148&v=RfSkUl5Bnhg
Darcy’s Law (GE) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPAbwD7A1M8
Hydrologic Loading Model Displacements from the National and Global Data Assimilation Systems (NLDAS and GLDAS)https://www.unavco.org/data/gps-gnss/associated-products/hydrological/displacement-model-readme.pdf
GMT Tutorials
http://gmt-tutorials.org/en/index.html (courtesy of Dr. Whyjay Zheng)
http://140.112.56.1/geodesy1/images/course/GMT-2011/ (courtesy of Dr. Jyr-Ching HU)
Ten Simple Rules for Better Figures
Rougier et al., 2014 https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003833#s12
Credits to Authors