[gdal-dev] JAXAPalsar 1.0 & 1.1 extended metadata reading support

[Frank Warmerdam]

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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