SARbian OS The free and open SAR operating system

Abstract

SARbian OS (https://eo-college.org/sarbian/) is a free and open operating system based on Debian Linux. SARbian OS includes free and open processing tools for the processing of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data from satellites such as Sentinel 1 or TerraSAR-X. SARbian OS is designed to lower the threshold to get started with the work in radar remote sensing. It is provided as a bootable .iso file as well as a virtual machine, therefore it canbe used as a linux live system on any other operating system or as a native Linux OS. The idea behind SARbian roots in the difficulties with installing and compiling of free source SAR processing software that many users experience. Especially if they are new to the world of data processing and use of free software. SARbian is an attempt to make SAR data processing easy. The following software is included in the recent version of SARbian OS: General SAR processing - SNAP - ASF Map Ready - pyroSAR SAR polarimetry - PolSARpro SAR interferometry - DORIS - SNAPHU - PyAPS - PyRAT GIS - QGIS - GDAL - GRASS GIS Misc - R (+R Studio, +R Shiny) - Python (+Gdal, +Pip2, +Pip3)