Kite

Preparation of InSAR surface displacement maps for geophysical modelling

Introduction

This framework is streamlining InSAR displacement processing routines for earthquake inversion through pyrocko and Grond.

Kite features simple and efficient handling of displacement data:

Import InSAR displacement data from GAMMA, ISCE, GMTSAR, ROI_PAC, SARScape, COMET LiCSAR and Matlab
Efficient quadtree implementation
Covariance estimation from noise
Interactive GUI

Documentation

Find the documentation at https://pyrocko.org/kite/docs/current/.

Short Example

from kite import Scene

# Import Matlab container to kite
scene = Scene.import_file('dataset.mat')
scene.spool()  # start the GUI for data inspection and Quadtree parametrisation

# Inspection of covariance parameters
scene.quadtree.covariance.plot()

Installation and Requirement

Requires libraries

PyQt5 with OpenGL support
PyQtGraph
NumPy
SciPy

Installation on Debian based distributions through apt

sudo apt-get install python-pyside python-pyside.qtcore python-pyside.qtopengl\
  python-yaml python-scipy python-numpy

Installation through pip

sudo pip install git+https://github.com/pyqtgraph/pyqtgraph.git
sudo pip install git+https://github.com/pyrocko/kite.git

Native installation

git clone https://github.com/pyqtgraph/pyqtgraph.git
cd pyqtgraph; sudo python setup.py install
git clone https://github.com/pyrocko/kite.git
cd kite; sudo python setup.py install

Citation

Recommended citation for Kite

Isken, Marius; Sudhaus, Henriette; Heimann, Sebastian; Steinberg, Andreas; Daout, Simon; Vasyura-Bathke, Hannes (2017): Kite - Software for Rapid Earthquake Source Optimisation from InSAR Surface Displacement. V. 0.1. GFZ Data Services. http://doi.org/10.5880/GFZ.2.1.2017.002

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