The Sarviews Project: Automated Processing Of Sentinel-1 Sar Data For Geoscience And Hazard Response

This paper describes the SARVIEWS processing system, a cloud-based hazard monitoring system that provides near real-time information from Sentinel-1 SAR for hazard events related to severe weather, earthquakes, and volcanic unrest.Work conducted within the SARVIEWS project includes (1) the development of hardened fully-automatic processing algorithms for the generation of hazard information products from Sentinel-1 SAR acquisitions; (2) the design of a cloud-based production pipeline to automatically produce these products in near real-time over hazard-affected regions; (3) the implementation of data distribution mechanisms; and (4) the application of SARVIEWS to a range of natural disasters.In this paper, we describe the main goals of the SARVIEWS hazard monitoring system and provide information about its implementation. We showcase the benefits of SARVIEWS for a range of geophysical hazard events and discuss the contributions SARVIEWS made to these events.

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