Abstract
The SAR2CUBE project, launched in February 2020, has the objective to facilitate the use of SAR products in the scientific EO community and to promote them as relevant EO assets. The Sentinel mission within the Copernicus program defines a new playground where to exploit an extraordinary and unique amount of EO information. In particular, the radar pair defined by the twins Sentinel-1A and Sentinel-1B is offering a constant stream of SAR data since they were launched, late 2014 and early 2016 respectively. However, the interferometric capabilities provided by this source are underused. The particular nature of the complex interferometric data often presents a barrier to incorporate these data within the processing chains. The obvious nature of other kinds of sensors, such as optical or multi-spectral data, facilitates the incorporation of these products into different analysis frameworks. To reduce the entry-level barrier of the InSAR-derived products the SAR2CUBE project is designed to provide both SAR and InSAR analysis-ready data (ARD) specifically defined to achieve efficiency and flexibility in processing and analysing this valuable source of information. The SAR2CUBE project is lead by the team of Eurac Research and carried out in collaboration with DARES Technologies, funded through the EOEP-5 open call of the European Space Agency.