On 11-06-18 02:59 AM, Antonio Valentino wrote:
I don't know if someone is currently working on the JAXAPalsar driver.
Anyway I' very interested in extending driver for SAR products to get
more metadata so I would be happy to help if you need.

Folks,

Phil Vachon did most of the JAXA Palsar work but has moved on to
non-geospatial pursuits, so anyone interested should feel free to
dig in.

Palsar products are in CEOS format so IMHO it would be nice to setup a
general mechanism to decode CEOS records (a similar job has been done
for ENVISAT records recently)

http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/4105
http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/attachment/ticket/4105/asar_metadata.patch

The hard part (it is a very boring job) IMHO is to fill data structures
that properly describe CEOS records for each sensor end product type.

Anyway populating record descriptors is a job that can be done gradually
and, hopefully, with the help of other users so we could start with the
few metadata you are currently interested in and add other record
descriptors later.

The key is to setup a genereal (enough) framework for CEOS record decoding.

There is already a generic SAR CEOS driver (gdal/frmts/ceos2) with a CEOS
record parsing mechanism.  If that is what you want, please start from it.
For reasons not immediately obvious to me Phil chose to build a specific
JAXA Palsar driver but please think twice before building it out into a full
generic CEOS driver duplicating what already exists.

Best regards,
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