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TOPSAR Deburst and Merge

Sentinel-1 TOPSAR Deburst and Merge

For the TOPSAR IW and EW SLC products, each product consists of one image per swath
per polarization. IW products have 3 swaths and EW have 5 swaths. Each sub-swath
image consists of a series of bursts, where each burst was processed as a separate SLC
image. The individually focused complex burst images are included, in azimuth-time order,
into a single subswath image, with black-fill demarcation in between, similar to the
ENVISAT ASAR Wide ScanSAR SLC products.

For IW, a focused burst has a duration of 2.75 sec and a burst overlap of ~50-100
samples. For EW, a focused burst has a duration of 3.19 sec. Overlap increases in range
within a sub- swath.

Images for all bursts in all sub-swaths of an IW SLC product are re-sampled to a common
pixel spacing grid in range and azimuth. Burst synchronisation is ensured for both IW and
EW products.

Unlike ASAR WSS which contains large overlap between beams, for S-1 TOPSAR, the
imaged ground area of adjacent bursts will only marginally overlap in azimuth just enough
to provide contiguous coverage of the ground. This is due to the one natural azimuth look
inherent in the data.

For GRD products, the bursts are concatenated and sub-swaths are merged to form one
image. Bursts overlap minimally in azimuth and sub-swaths overlap minimally in range.
Bursts for all beams have been resampled to a common grid during azimuth
post-processing.

In the range direction, for each line in all sub-swaths with the same time tag, merge
adjacent sub-swaths. For the overlapping region in range, merging is done midway
between subswaths.

In the azimuth direction, bursts are merged according to their zero Doppler time. Note that
the black-fill demarcation is not distinctly zero at the end or start of the burst. Due to
resampling, the data fades into zero and out. The merge time is determined by the
average of the last line of the first burst and the first line of the next burst. For each range
cell, the merging time is quantised to the nearest output azimuth cell to eliminate any
fading to zero data.

Input

The input to the operator is the Sentinel-1 TOPSAR IW or EW SLC product. The
product could be original Sentinel-1 product or processed product. It could have
multi subswaths or just one subswath like in the scae of split product.

Output
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The output of this operator is the deburst product.

Parameters Used

Polarisations: The polarisations for the deburst product. User can select one or more
polarisations.