# ICEYE SAR Imagery
*data products*

## Specifications
- **level**: L1
- **distributor**: iceye
- **gsd m**: {"native":3}
- **file format**: Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF (GRD, primary); Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF (SLC, complex); HDF5/GeoTIFF (legacy formats, deprecated 2026-12-31)
- **access endpoint**: https://www.iceye.com/sar-data/api
- **access model**: commercial
- **cost model summary**: Commercial tasking and archive access via direct customer agreement or API. Copernicus Contributing Mission status enables sponsored access for qualifying research and civil security users via the European Union Copernicus programme.
- **primary data portal url**: https://www.iceye.com/sar-data
- **use cases**: ["Disaster response and rapid damage assessment (flood, earthquake, storm surge)","Defence and intelligence ISR (persistent monitoring, change detection)","Infrastructure monitoring (mine sites, construction, oil and gas facilities)","Maritime domain awareness (ship detection, port activity monitoring)","Structural geology mapping and fault tracing (Strip mode for regional coverage)","Sub-metre change detection at high-value sites (Dwell, Spotlight modes)"]
- **practical limitations**: ["VV single-polarisation only; no dual-pol or cross-pol (limits vegetation biomass and soil moisture retrieval compared to Sentinel-1 VV+VH)","Commercial access required; no free open-data tier outside Copernicus Contributing Mission sponsored allocation","Copernicus Contributing Mission access conditions not fully verified at tier 1 in this research pass; available volume and eligibility criteria may differ from public Sentinel access","Per-mode resolution varies by sensor generation; Dwell Precise (0.25 m) requires Gen 3.5 satellite tasking"]
- **last verified date**: "2026-05-19T00:00:00.000Z"
- **verified by**: sw
- **claim status**: unclaimed
- **deployment context**: orbital

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Source: https://eo-atlas.org/data_products/iceye-sar-imagery
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