workflow/application script for FRInGE outputs

[forrestfwilliams]

Description of the desired feature
FRInGE is a great new tool for InSAR deformation analysis that estimates a deformation time series from a stack of SLCs, but many InSAR utilites (DEM correction, troposphere correction, geocoding) that are not implement within FRInGE. Enabling MintPy support of FRInGE outputs would be a great way to increase the utility of FRInGE without needing to recreate these utilities.

Describe the solution you'd like
It would be great if a second application (timeseriesApp?) was created that could simplify the use of FRInGE outputs within the MintPy framework

Additional context
I have already create a script (prep_fringe.py) that can ingest FRInGE outputs and create temporalCoherence.h5 and timeseries.h5 files, but more work needs to by done to use this script within an application. Mainly, the creation of a different application script that does not include the SBAS steps, and inclusion of prep_fringe.py options within a configuration file.

Are you willing to help implement and maintain this feature? Yes/No
Yes

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[yunjunz]

Hi @4restwilliams, it's awsome that you have the prep_fringe.py! I definitely agree with you about timeseriesApp.py.

Since all scripts within $MINTPY_HOME/mintpy folder is executable, I recommend you to try all steps after prep_fringe.py in the command line first, to make sure you have everything working as expected in prep_fringe, before working on timeseriesApp. They are:

tropo_pyaps3.py
remove_ramp.py
dem_error.py
timeseries_rms.py
reference_date.py
timeseries2velocity.py
geocode.py
save_kmz.py

You can check the detailed usage of them by running -h or look at the message from smallbaselineApp.py, which calls all of them internally and prints out the calling command line as well.

[yunjunz]

After the above checking is done. The implementation of timeseriesApp should be simple, take a look at the TimeSeriesAnalysis class at L206. The new application could call this TimeSeriesAnalysis object and feed it with the defined steps, which is everything after invert_network in the STEP_LIST. So this script can be very similar to smallbaselineApp.py but without the big TimeSeriesAnalysis definition.

[forrestfwilliams]

Hi @yunjunz I've checked all the executeables, and they complete successfully. I'll start looking into TimeSeriesAnalysis class.