Research groups that I worked in
UC Berkeley Active Tectonics Research Group led by Dr. Roland Bürgmann
SMU Radar Lab led by Dr. Zhong Lu
KAUST Crustal Deformation and InSAR Group led by Dr. Sigurjón Jónsson
InSAR principles
NASA (NISAR Handbook) https://nisar.jpl.nasa.gov/files/nisar/NISAR_Science_Users_Handbook.pdf
ESA https://www.esa.int/esapub/tm/tm19/TM-19_ptA.pdf
Geospatial Information Authority of Japan (GSI) https://vldb.gsi.go.jp/sokuchi/sar/qanda/qanda-e.html
NASA (SAR Handbook in forest and biomass monitoring) https://servirglobal.net/Global/Articles/Article/2674/sar-handbook-comprehensive-methodologies-for-forest-monitoring-and-biomass-estimation
SAR data search and download
ASF https://vertex.daac.asf.alaska.edu
Sentinel Copernicus Open Access Hub https://scihub.copernicus.eu/dhus/#/home
Sentinel POD Precise Orbit Ephemerides https://qc.sentinel1.eo.esa.int/aux_poeorb/
ALOS2 PASCO Corporation http://en.alos-pasco.com
ALOS2 data download (account required) https://auig2.jaxa.jp/ips/home
TerraSAR-X Airbus https://terrasar-x-archive.terrasar.com
UAVSAR https://uavsar.jpl.nasa.gov
GPS
UNAVCO http://www.unavco.org/data/gps-gnss/data-access-methods/dai2/app/dai2.html#
ftp://data-out.unavco.org/pub/products/velocity/
USGS https://earthquake.usgs.gov/monitoring/gps
Nevada Geodetic Laboratory http://geodesy.unr.edu/ (right panel of the homepage has additional information that may be useful)
GPS tools (courtesy of Dr. Kathryn Materna) https://github.com/kmaterna/GNSS_TimeSeries_Viewers
LiDAR DEM
Washington DNR, LiDAR DEM in Washington http://lidarportal.dnr.wa.gov
PSLC, LiDAR DEM over the Pacific Northwest http://pugetsoundlidar.ess.washington.edu/lidardata/index.html
OpenTopography, LiDAR DEM over the US https://opentopography.org
Statewide/Worldwide DEM sources
SRTM DEM (page bottom for SRTM V2) https://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/srtm/
ASTER GDEM https://asterweb.jpl.nasa.gov/gdem.asp
USGS NED https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/usgs-national-elevation-dataset-ned
TanDEM https://download.geoservice.dlr.de/TDM90/
Aerial imagery
NAIP https://datagateway.nrcs.usda.gov/GDGHome_DirectDownLoad.aspx
Landsat
Sentinel-2
Earthquake catalog
USGS https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/search
Univ. of Utah https://quake.utah.edu/regional-info/earthquake-catalogs
Water level and water discharge
USGS https://waterdata.usgs.gov/usa/nwis/
Utah Geological Survey https://apps.geology.utah.gov/gwdp/
Climate data
WRCC https://wrcc.dri.edu/summary/
NCDC, NOAA https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cdo-web/datasets/
NRCS https://www.wcc.nrcs.usda.gov/index.html
https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/site/national/home/
MesoWest https://mesowest.utah.edu
California Data Exchange Center http://cdec.water.ca.gov/snow_rain.html
PRISM http://www.prism.oregonstate.edu/
Soil moisture
NLDAS GLDAS https://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov/datasets/
SMAP http://nsidc.org/data/smap/smap-data.html
Gravity
USGS https://mrdata.usgs.gov/gravity/bouguer/
Shape files
Utah Automated Geographic Reference Center (aquifers, streams, faults, etc. in Utah) https://gis.utah.gov/data/geoscience/
USGS (faults in the US; some are inferred) https://earthquake.usgs.gov/hazards/qfaults/
California Department of Conservation (faults in California) https://maps.conservation.ca.gov/cgs/fam/
Faults in China http://activefault-datacenter.cn (Interactive map only; no shape file)
Geoid Height Calculator
Spatial Reference
Remote sensing data analysis
Custom scripts https://custom-scripts.sentinel-hub.com/
Earthquake catalog analysis
ZMAP (based on matlab) http://www.seismo.ethz.ch/en/research-and-teaching/products-software/software/ZMAP/
Strain calculation
Matlab script for 2D (courtesy of Dr. R. Mallick and Dr. K. Bradley) https://doi.org/10.21979/N9/FLOXET
Mac APP SSPX for 2D/3D (courtesy of Dr. N. Cardozoa and Dr. R.W. Allmendinger)
Analytical and semianalytical solutions for the displacements
Courtesy of Dr. S. Barbot, Dr. J.D.P. Moore, and Dr. V. Lambert https://bitbucket.org/sbarbot/bssa-2016237/
Geoplot tool in Matlab
https://www.eoas.ubc.ca/~rich/map.html
Cool brief educational videos and documents
Subduction Zone Processes (courtesy of Wada's Lab) https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=148&v=RfSkUl5Bnhg
Darcy's Law (GE) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPAbwD7A1M8
Hydrologic Loading Model Displacements from the National and Global Data Assimilation Systems (NLDAS and GLDAS) https://www.unavco.org/data/gps-gnss/associated-products/hydrological/displacement-model-readme.pdf
GMT tutorials
http://gmt-tutorials.org/en/index.html (courtesy of Dr. Whyjay Zheng)
http://140.112.56.1/geodesy1/images/course/GMT-2011/ (courtesy of Dr. Jyr-Ching HU)
Ten simple rules for better figures
Rougier et al., 2014 https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003833#s12
GeoMapApp
QGIS (free)
ArcGIS Pro (license required)
Credits to the authors