InSAR time series and velocities in northwest Arabia, Yemen, and Oman

<InSAR time series and velocities in northwest Arabia, Yemen, and Oman>

This repository contains the data used by Liu et al. (2025a) and Liu et al. (2025b). It includes two InSAR time-series datasets from the Sentinel-1 satellite acquired over northwest Arabia, Yemen, and Oman.

Software hosted on GitHub repo PyPMM. Datasets are shared here via Zenodo.

• Liu, Y.-K., Yunjun, Z., Simons, M. (2025a), Inferring tectonic plate rotations from InSAR time series, under review, doi:xxx.
• Liu, Y.-K., Simons, M. (2025b), Constraining the extension and interseismic coupling along the southern Dead Sea Transform., in prep., doi:yyy.

Datasets: Sentinel-1 tracks

• Date: Jun 2014 - Jun 2023 (~250 acquisitions)
• Processor: ISCE/topsStack + MintPy

• NW Arabia:
  • ascending track 087
  • ascending track 014
  • ascending track 106
  • descending track 021
  • descending track 123
• Yemen:
  • descending track 006
  • descending track 108
• Oman:
  • ascending track 028
  • ascending track 057
• Sinai:
  • ascending track 160
  • descending track 094

Files:

• configs.tar.gz: MintPy Configuration files
• geometry.tar.gz: Geometry files (in HDF5 format)
• timeseries.tar.gz: Displacement time series (in HDF5 format). Raw SBAS time series (uncorrected).
• velocity.tar.gz: Secular velocity (in HDF5 format). Corrected for SET, ERA5, Ionosphere, Ocean tides, DEM errors. In the ITRF2014 frame.
• itrf_pmm.tar.gz: ITRF-2014 Arabian Plate Motion Model (Altamimi et al., 2017) (in HDF5 format).
• kmz.zip: Output secular velocity in kmz format. In the ITRF2014 frame.