ARIA-tools v1.5

Release Features

• Introduced ariaOrderASF.py, a new command-line tool to query, generate pair lists, and order Sentinel-1 ARIA GUNW products directly from ASF On-Demand (HyP3). Supported network generations include sequential, seasonal, and annual nearest neighbors.
• Extended ariaPlot.py functionality to fully support both NISAR and Sentinel-1 GUNW products, including bounding box cropping (--croptounion).
• Fixed a critical background-processing bug during parallel layer extractions (e.g., bPerpendicular, lookAngle). Phantom Error in sys.excepthook terminal errors that previously cluttered progress bars have been resolved by explicitly closing floating GDAL C-pointers in interpolation workflows and enforcing clean OS-level teardowns for gnu_parallel subprocesses.
• Fixed a minor bug in ariaPlot.py that caused duplicate file extensions (e.g., .eps.eps) for perpendicular baseline histograms.
• Updated environment configurations (environment.yml, requirements.txt, setup.py) to properly incorporate ASF/HyP3 libraries as core dependencies, and capped Python compatibility to < 3.14 to prevent upstream dependency conflicts.
• Updated README.md to document ariaOrderASF usage and reflect ariaPlot NISAR support.

Team Contributions

• David Bekaert
• Simran Sangha

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