InSAR principles

NASA (NISAR Handbook) https://nisar.jpl.nasa.gov/files/nisar/NISAR_Science_Users_Handbook.pdf

ESA https://www.esa.int/esapub/tm/tm19/TM-19_ptA.pdf

https://earth.esa.int/web/guest/missions/esa-operational-eo-missions/envisat/content/-/article/asar-faq-3829

Geospatial Information Authority of Japan (GSI) https://vldb.gsi.go.jp/sokuchi/sar/qanda/qanda-e.html

NASA (SAR Handbook in forest and biomass monitoring) https://servirglobal.net/Global/Articles/Article/2674/sar-handbook-comprehensive-methodologies-for-forest-monitoring-and-biomass-estimation


SAR data search and download

ASF https://vertex.daac.asf.alaska.edu

Sentinel Copernicus Open Access Hub https://scihub.copernicus.eu/dhus/#/home

Sentinel POD Precise Orbit Ephemerides https://qc.sentinel1.eo.esa.int/aux_poeorb/

ALOS2 PASCO Corporation http://en.alos-pasco.com

ALOS2 data download (account required) https://auig2.jaxa.jp/ips/home

TerraSAR-X Airbus https://terrasar-x-archive.terrasar.com

UAVSAR https://uavsar.jpl.nasa.gov


GPS

UNAVCO http://www.unavco.org/data/gps-gnss/data-access-methods/dai2/app/dai2.html#

ftp://data-out.unavco.org/pub/products/velocity/

USGS https://earthquake.usgs.gov/monitoring/gps

Nevada Geodetic Laboratory http://geodesy.unr.edu/ (right panel of the homepage has additional information that may be useful)

GPS tools (courtesy of Dr. Kathryn Materna) https://github.com/kmaterna/GNSS_TimeSeries_Viewers


LiDAR DEM

Washington DNR, LiDAR DEM in Washington http://lidarportal.dnr.wa.gov

PSLC, LiDAR DEM over the Pacific Northwest http://pugetsoundlidar.ess.washington.edu/lidardata/index.html

OpenTopography, LiDAR DEM over the US https://opentopography.org


Statewide/Worldwide DEM sources

SRTM DEM (page bottom for SRTM V2) https://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/srtm/

ASTER GDEM https://asterweb.jpl.nasa.gov/gdem.asp

USGS NED https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/usgs-national-elevation-dataset-ned

TanDEM https://download.geoservice.dlr.de/TDM90/


Aerial imagery

NAIP https://datagateway.nrcs.usda.gov/GDGHome_DirectDownLoad.aspx

Landsat

Sentinel-2


Earthquake catalog

USGS https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/search

University of Utah https://quake.utah.edu/regional-info/earthquake-catalogs


Water level and water discharge

USGS https://waterdata.usgs.gov/usa/nwis/

Utah Geological Survey https://apps.geology.utah.gov/gwdp/


Climate data

WRCC https://wrcc.dri.edu/summary/

NCDC, NOAA https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cdo-web/datasets/

NRCS https://www.wcc.nrcs.usda.gov/index.html

https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/site/national/home/

MesoWest https://mesowest.utah.edu

California Data Exchange Center http://cdec.water.ca.gov/snow_rain.html

PRISM http://www.prism.oregonstate.edu/


Soil moisture

NLDAS GLDAS https://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov/datasets/

SMAP http://nsidc.org/data/smap/smap-data.html


Gravity

USGS https://mrdata.usgs.gov/gravity/bouguer/


Shape files

Utah Automated Geographic Reference Center (aquifers, streams, faults, etc. in Utah) https://gis.utah.gov/data/geoscience/

USGS (faults in the US; some are inferred) https://earthquake.usgs.gov/hazards/qfaults/

California Department of Conservation (faults in California) https://maps.conservation.ca.gov/cgs/fam/

Faults in China http://activefault-datacenter.cn (interactive map only; no shape file)


Geoid Height Calculator

UNAVCO https://www.unavco.org/software/geodetic-utilities/geoid-height-calculator/geoid-height-calculator.html


Spatial Reference

http://spatialreference.org


Remote sensing data analysis

Custom scripts https://custom-scripts.sentinel-hub.com/


Earthquake catalog analysis

ZMAP (based on matlab) http://www.seismo.ethz.ch/en/research-and-teaching/products-software/software/ZMAP/


Strain calculation

Matlab script for 2D (courtesy of Dr. R. Mallick and Dr. K. Bradley) https://doi.org/10.21979/N9/FLOXET

Mac APP SSPX for 2D/3D (courtesy of Dr. N. Cardozoa and Dr. R.W. Allmendinger)


Analytical and semianalytical solutions for the displacements

Courtesy of Dr. S. Barbot, Dr. J.D.P. Moore, and Dr. V. Lambert https://bitbucket.org/sbarbot/bssa-2016237/


Geoplot tool in Matlab

https://www.eoas.ubc.ca/~rich/map.html


Cool brief educational videos and documents

Subduction Zone Processes (courtesy of Wada’s Lab) https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=148&v=RfSkUl5Bnhg

Darcy’s Law (GE) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPAbwD7A1M8

Hydrologic Loading Model Displacements from the National and Global Data Assimilation Systems (NLDAS and GLDAS) https://www.unavco.org/data/gps-gnss/associated-products/hydrological/displacement-model-readme.pdf


GMT tutorials

http://gmt-tutorials.org/en/index.html (courtesy of Dr. Whyjay Zheng)

http://140.112.56.1/geodesy1/images/course/GMT-2011/ (courtesy of Dr. Jyr-Ching HU)


Ten simple rules for better figures

Rougier et al., 2014 https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003833#s12


GeoMapApp


QGIS (free)


ArcGIS Pro (license required)


Credits to the authors