{"id":37,"date":"2015-05-05T13:11:42","date_gmt":"2015-05-05T13:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/step.esa.int\/main\/?page_id=37"},"modified":"2024-06-19T09:32:14","modified_gmt":"2024-06-19T09:32:14","slug":"snap","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/step.esa.int\/main\/toolboxes\/snap\/","title":{"rendered":"SNAP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A common architecture for all Sentinel Toolboxes is being jointly developed by Brockmann Consult, SkyWatch and C-S called the <strong>Sentinel Application Platform<\/strong> (SNAP).<\/p>\n<p>The SNAP architecture is ideal for Earth Observation processing and analysis due to the following technological innovations: Extensibility, Portability, Modular Rich Client Platform, Generic EO Data Abstraction, Tiled Memory Management, and a Graph Processing Framework.<\/p>\n<h2>Feature Highlights<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Common architecture for all Toolboxes<\/li>\n<li>Very <strong>fast image display and navigation<\/strong> even of giga-pixel images<\/li>\n<li id=\"aui_3_4_0_1_1780\">Graph Processing Framework (GPF): for creating user-defined processing chains<\/li>\n<li>Advanced <strong>layer management<\/strong> allows adding and manipulation of new overlays such as images of other bands, images from WMS servers or ESRI shapefiles<\/li>\n<li>Rich <strong>region-of-interest<\/strong> definitions for <strong>statistics <\/strong>and various <strong>plots<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Easy <strong>bitmask <\/strong>definition and overlay<\/li>\n<li>Flexible <strong>band arithmetic<\/strong> using arbitrary mathematical expressions<\/li>\n<li>Accurate <strong>reprojection <\/strong>and <strong>ortho-rectification<\/strong> to common map projections,<\/li>\n<li>Geo-coding and rectification using <strong>ground control points<\/strong><\/li>\n<li id=\"aui_3_4_0_1_1697\">Automatic SRTM DEM download and tile selection<\/li>\n<li id=\"aui_3_4_0_1_1678\">Product library for scanning and cataloguing large archives efficiently<\/li>\n<li>Multithreading and Multi-core processor support<\/li>\n<li id=\"aui_3_4_0_1_1764\">Integrated WorldWind visualisation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/step.esa.int\/main\/toolboxes\/snap\/snap-faq\/\">SNAP Frequently Asked Questions<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>SNAP is using the following technologies<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/netbeans.org\/features\/platform\/\">NetBeans platform<\/a> &#8211; desktop application framework<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ej-technologies.com\/products\/install4j\/overview.html\">Install4J<\/a> &#8211; multi-platform installation builder<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geotools.org\/\">GeoTools<\/a> &#8211; geospatial tools library<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/gdal.org\/\">GDAL<\/a> &#8211; reading\/writing raster and vector geospatial data formats<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.atlassian.com\/software\/jira\">Jira<\/a> &#8211; issue tracker<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/git-scm.com\/\">Git<\/a> &#8211; version control system, hosted by <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/\">GitHub<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A common architecture for all Sentinel Toolboxes is being jointly developed by Brockmann Consult, SkyWatch and C-S called the Sentinel Application Platform (SNAP). The SNAP architecture is ideal for Earth Observation processing and analysis due to the following technological innovations:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2294,"parent":21,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"publish_to_discourse":"0","publish_post_category":"","wpdc_auto_publish_overridden":"","wpdc_topic_tags":"","wpdc_pin_topic":"","wpdc_pin_until":"","discourse_post_id":"","discourse_permalink":"","wpdc_publishing_response":"","wpdc_publishing_error":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-37","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/step.esa.int\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/step.esa.int\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/step.esa.int\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/step.esa.int\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/step.esa.int\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/step.esa.int\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/37\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2074,"href":"https:\/\/step.esa.int\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/37\/revisions\/2074"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/step.esa.int\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/step.esa.int\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/step.esa.int\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}