InSAR Explorer

Description

InSAR Explorer is a QGIS plugin that allows for dynamic visualization and analysis of InSAR time series data. It was originally developed to visualize outputs of SARvey, but has since been expanded to support MintPy, MiaplPy, GMTSAR, SARscape and EGMS products. Check the full documentation for a list of all supported software and instructions on how to create the required input data.

How to use

Install the plugin

Install InSAR Explorer. You can install the plugin from the QGIS Plugin Repository. Search for InSAR Explorer in the QGIS Plugin Manager and click Install. More information about different installation methods can be found here.

Prepare time series data

Prepare the time series data as a vector or raster file in the required format. You can prepare the data using different software. You can use the sample data provided here for testing the plugin.

Use the plugin to plot time series

Open a vector or raster layer with InSAR time series data in QGIS. Open the plugin and click on any point in the map to display the time series data. More information here

Contributing

We welcome contributions to the project. Please follow the guidelines here.

License

This plugin is licensed under the GPL-3.0 license. See the LICENSE file for more details. If you use InSAR Explorer in your research, please cite the following paper:

• M. H. Haghighi et al., “SARvey and InSAR Explorer: Open-source tools for InSAR data processing and visualization,” in Proc. 2025 IEEE Int. Geosci. Remote Sens. Symp. (IGARSS), Brisbane, Australia, 2025, pp. 9414–9417.

To cite a specific version of InSAR Explorer, you can use the DOI available in the
InSAR Explorer Zenodo repository

Authors

Mahmud Haghighi

Contributors

Andreas Piter, Erik Rivas

Contact

For any questions or issues, please create an issue on the GitHub repository.