Supported formats

GSDView is mainly based on the GDAL library for accessing geo-spatial data so in theory, all raster products supported by GDAL (both raster and optical) should be accessible via GSDView.

That’s not quite true. At the moment only datasets with unsigned (or complex data types are supported.

Further GSDView only displays raster band in grayscale mode.

COSMO-SkyMed (HDF5)

Standard Products

	RAW	SCS	DGM	GEC	GTC
HI	Y1	Y	Y	Y	Y
PP	Y1	Y	Y	2	2
S2	Y1	Y	Y	Y	Y
WR	Y1	Y	Y	Y	2
HR	Y1	Y	Y	Y	2

Footnotes

1. level zero (L0) data (RAW_B products) can be opened in the dataset browser but only the QLK dataset is visualizable
2. not tested because data are not available

Sensor modes

• HI: Stripmap HImage
• PP: Stripmap Ping Pong
• S2: Spotlight 2
• HR: ScanSAR Huge Region
• WR: ScanSAR Wide Region

Product types

• RAW: received SAR echo signal
• SCS: Single look, Complex, Slant range
• DGM: Detected, Ground Projected, Multilook
• GEC: Geo-coded, Ellipsoid Corrected
• GTC: Geo-coded, Terrain Corrected

High level Products

	QLF	SPF_B	MOS_B	MOS_C	MOS_D	MOS_H
HI	Y	1	Y	1	1	1
PP	Y	Y	Y	1	1	1
S2	Y	1	Y	1	1	1
WR	Y	1	Y	1	1	1
HR	Y	1	Y	1	1	1

Product types

• QLF: Quick Look Products
• SPF_B: Speckle Filtered Products
• MOS_B: Mosaicked Product (L1B)
• MOS_C: Mosaicked Product (L1C)
• MOS_D: Mosaicked Product (L1D)
• MOS_H: Mosaicked Product (DEM)

	CRG_A	CRG_B	IPH_B	COH_B	DTM_H
HI	Y	1	Y	2	1
PP	1	1	1	1	1
S2	Y	1	Y	2	1
WR	1	1	1	1	1
HR	1	1	1	1	1

Product types

• CRG_A: Co-registered Product (L1A)
• CRG_B: Co-registered Product (L1B)
• IPH_B: Interferometric Phase
• COH_B: Coherence Image
• DTM_H: DEM Products

Footnotes

1. not tested because data are not available
2. display problems due to the inability of GSDView Pro to stretch adequately values in the [0,1] range (#409)

Sensor modes

• HI: Stripmap HImage
• PP: Stripmap Ping Pong
• S2: Spotlight 2
• HR: ScanSAR Huge Region
• WR: ScanSAR Wide Region

ERS1/ERS2 (CEOS)

RAW	N
SLC	Y
PRI	Y
GEC
GTC

Product types

• RAW: echo signal received from sensor
• SLC: Single Look Complex
• PRI: Precision corrected Image
• GEC: Geo-coded, Ellipsoid Corrected
• GTC: Geo-coded, Terrain Corrected

ENVISAT (MPH/SPH)

	Image	Alternating Polarisation
Single-look Complex	IMS Y	APS Y
Precision Image	IMP Y	APP Y
Geocoded	IMG Y	APG Y
Medium-resolution	IMM Y	APM Y
Browse	IM_BP Y	AP_BP Y

Product types

• IMP: Image Mode Precision Image
• IMS: Image Mode Single-Look Complex
• IMG: Image Mode Ellipsoid Geocoded Image
• IMM: Image Mode Medium-Resolution Image
• IM_BP: Image Mode Browse
• APP: Alternating Polarisation Mode
• APS: Alternating Polarisation Mode Single-look Complex
• APG: Alternating Polarisation Mode Ellipsoid Geocoded
• APM: Alternating Polarisation Medium-Resolution
• AP_BP: Alternating Polarisation Browse

	Wide Swath
Single-look Complex
Precision Image
Geocoded
Medium-resolution	WSM Y
Browse	WS_BP Y

Product types

• WSM: Wide Swath Browse
• WS_BP: Wide Swath Browse

	Global Monitoring
Image	GMI Y
Browse Image	GM_BP Y

Product types

• GMI: Global Monitoring Mode
• GMB: Global Monitoring Mode Browse

	Wave Mode
SLC imagette and Imagette Cross Spectra	WVI Y
Imagette Cross Spectra	WVS Y
Ocean Wave Spectra	WVW Y

Product types

• WVI: Wave Mode SLC Imagette and Imagette Cross Spectra
• WVS: Wave Mode Imagette Cross Spectra
• WVW: Wave Mode Ocean Wave Spectra

ALOS (CEOS)

Sensor IDs

• PALSAR
• PRISM
• AVNIR-2

PALSAR

	1.0	1.1	1.5
FBS	Y1	Y	Y
FBD
WB1			Y
WB2
DN
PLR	Y1	N2	Y

Footnotes

1. GSDView opens it, but some problem with scrolling are found
2. GSDView crashes in some test

Sensor modes

• DSN: Direct Downlink
• FBS: Fine Beam Single Polarisation
• FBD: Fine Beam Double Polarisation
• PLR: Polarimetry mode
• WB1: ScanSAR Burst mode 1
• WB2: ScanSAR Burst mode 2

AVNIR 2

	1A	1B1	1B2
	N1	N1	N1

Footnotes

1. GDAL doesn’t support it, only single image files could be opened

PRISM

	1A	1B1	1B2
		N1

Footnotes

1. GDAL doesn’t support it, only single image files could be opened

Radarsat1 (CEOS)

	SLC	SGX	SGF	SSG	SPG
Fine
Standard
Wide
Fine Resolution
ScanSAR Narrow
ScanSAR Wide
Extended High
Extended Low

Product types

• SLC: Single Look Complex
• SGF: SAR Georeferenced Fine
• SGX: SAR Georeferenced Extra-Fine
• SSG: SAR Systematic Geocorrected
• SPG: SAR Precision Geocorrected

Radarsat2 (GTiff+XML)

	SLC	SGF	SGX	SGC	SSG	SPG
Ultra fine	N1
Multi-look fine
Fine		N1
Standard
Wide		N1
ScanSAR Narrow
ScanSAR Wide		N1
Extended High
Fine quad-pol	N1
Standard quad-pol

Footnotes

1. GDAL support it but GSDView is not able to read xml files, but only singl tiff ones

Product types

• SLC: Single Look Complex
• SGF: SAR Georeferenced Fine
• SGX: SAR Georeferenced Extra-Fine
• SGC: SAR Georeferenced Coarse
• SSG: SAR Systematic Geocorrected
• SPG: SAR Precision Geocorrected

TerraSAR-X (GTiff+XML)

	SSC	MGD	GEC	EEC
SM_S			Y2
SM_D			Y2
HS_S		Y2
HS_D
SL_S	Y2			Y2
SL_D			Y2
SC_S	1

Footnotes

1. not tested because data are not available
2. both xml and IMAGEDATA files can be opened

Sensor modes

• SM_S: Single Polarization Stripmap
• SM_D: Dual Polarization Stripmap
• HS_S: High Resolution Single Polarization Spotlight
• HS_D: High Resolution Dual Polarization Spotlight
• SL_S: Single Polarization Spotlight
• SL_D: Dual Polarization Spotlight
• SC_S: Single Polarization ScanSAR

Product types

• SSC: Single Look Slant Range Complex
• MGD: Multi Look Ground Range Complex
• GEC: Geocoded Ellipsoid Corrected
• EEC: Enhanced Ellipsoid Corrected