Delta-X: UAVSAR L1 Single Look Complex (SLC) Stack Products, MRD, Louisiana, 2021

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This dataset contains UAVSAR Level 1 (L1) Single Look Complex (SLC) stack products for Delta-X flight lines acquired during 2021-03-27 to 2021-04-18 (spring) and 2021-09-03 to 2021-09-13 (fall). The data were collected by Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle Synthetic Aperture Radar (UAVSAR), a polarimetric L-band synthetic aperture radar flown on the NASA Gulfstream-III (C20) aircraft as part of the Delta-X campaign. The study area includes the Atchafalaya Basin, in Southern Louisiana, USA, within the Mississippi River Delta (MRD) floodplain. Repeat pass interferometric synthetic aperture (InSAR) data are a standard UAVSAR product delivered by the UAVSAR processing team. These repeat pass SLC stack co-registered time series data were used as the underlying data for higher level data products. These higher level products provide a time series of water level changes and address a goal of the Delta-X campaign to measure water-level changes throughout wetlands. Data quality was assessed by comparing water elevation estimates with data from in situ water level gauges throughout the study area. These L1 data contain slant range single look complex (SLC), latitude/longitude/height, look vector, doppler, and metadata files. The data are provided in SLC stack format (*.slc) with associated annotation (*.ann), latitude-longitude-height (*.llh), look vector (*.lkv), and Doppler centroid-slant range (*.dop) files. The single look complex (SLC) stacks are in the HH, HV, VH, and VV polarizations. The same area was sampled at approximately 30-minute intervals. The SLCs are not corrected for residual baseline (BU).

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