insarlab/MintPy: Version 1.4.0

Cut a release for the 2022 UNAVCO InSAR short course (ISCE+).

• closure_phase_bias: add the phase non-closure induced bias estimation for small baseline approaches (Zheng et al., 2022) (#765 by Y. Zheng, Z. Yunjun).

• add bulk_plate_motion to estimate the tectonic plate motion in ENU/LOS direction from plate motion models (Stephenson et al., 2022, under review) (#769,#808 by Y. K. Liu, Z. Yunjun).

• smallbaselineApp: integrate complex time functions and uncertainty quantification into the routine workflow (#795) via: [backward incompatible change]

  • mintpy.timeFunc.polynomial
  • mintpy.timeFunc.periodic
  • mintpy.timeFunc.stepDate
  • mintpy.timeFunc.exp
  • mintpy.timeFunc.log
  • mintpy.timeFunc.uncertaintyQuantification
  • mintpy.timeFunc.timeSeriesCovFile

• load_data: load ionosphere stack from isce2/topsStack into ionStack.h5 file with auto-resize (#780, #796 by Y. K. Liu, Z. Yunjun) via:

  • mintpy.load.ionUnwFile
  • mintpy.load.ionCorFile
  • mintpy.load.ionConnCompFile

• load_data: support mean and median interpolation while loading stacks of observations (#797by Y. K. Liu) via: [backward incompatible change]

  • mintpy.multilook.x/ystep [renamed from mintpy.load.x/ystep]
  • mintpy.multilook.method

• add s1ab_range_bias.py for the S1A/B range bias correction for range offset (Yunjun et al., 2022) (#787).

• auto build the latest and develop docker image and push to the GitHub container registry (#696 by J. Kennedy).

• add mintpy to the Debian ecosystem with apt install support (#812 by A. Valentino).

• add the single entry point with sub-commands via mintpy.__main__ (#823 by A. Valentino)

• add mintpy.objects.ionex for IONEX file download and read, to replace the previous mintpy.simulation.iono (#794).

• tsview: switch to a new narrower slider and replace fig.canvas.draw() with fig.canvas.draw_idel/flush_events() (#764)

• repo structure change:

  • move the requirements.txt file to the root level (#772)
  • move shell scripts to the root level as scripts (#785 by A. Valentino)
  • spin off utils.map module from utils.plot for lat/lon labels and scalebar (#794)

• reduced test data size for SanFranSenDT42 and WCapeSenAT29 (#799)

• bugfixes

• Zhang Yunjun
• Yuan-Kai Liu
• Yujie Zheng
• Antonio Valentino
• Joseph Kennedy
• Brett Buzzanga
• Scott Staniewicz
• Falk Amelung
• Kang Liang
• Bryan Marfito