Synthetic Aperture Radar Archives

Areas shown in blue on this map are subsiding, with darker blue areas sinking faster than lighter blue ones. The areas shown in dark red are rising the fastest. The map was created by comparing thousands of scenes of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data collected between 2007 and 2011 and 2014 and 2018.

Mapping Ground Subsidence

January 27, 2021 by Mark Altaweel

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) can map subtle differences in the rates of subsidence.

New Map Shows How Fast Ice is Leaving Antarctica

August 11, 2019 by Elizabeth Borneman

Researchers used synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) data to look at how the ice is moving and shifting on Antarctica.

Over 2000 Sentinel-1 Satellite Images Were Used to Create a Map of Land Deformation in the United Kingdom

July 28, 2022April 11, 2018 by Caitlin Dempsey

A new map of the United Kingdom map tracks areas of land subsidence and uplift based on processed data from Sentinel-1’s Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR).

DigitalGlobe’s GBDX Receives Synthetic Aperture Radar Improvements

June 23, 2017June 22, 2017 by Olivia Harne

GBDX, a cloud centered GIS data platform provided by Earth-imaging and analysis company DigitalGlobe, is undergoing augmentations with Synthetic Aperture Radar data from Radarsat-2.