PAZ data collections consist of up to 20 m resolution data products from the X-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) instrument, processed to Level-1 and Level-1B. Products are available in the following modes:

• StripMap (SM)
• ScanSAR (SC)
• Wide ScanSAR (WS)
• Spotlight (SL)
• High Resolution Spotlight (HS)
• Staring Spotlight (ST)

With the following geometric projections:

• Single Look Slant Range Complex (SSC)
• Multi-Look Ground Range Detected (MGD)
• Geocoded Ellipsoid Corrected (GEC)
• Enhanced Ellipsoid Corrected (EEC)

There are two main classes for the products:

• Spatially Enhanced (SE)
• Radiometrically Enhanced (RE)

The products are available in the following polarisations:

• HH: Single-polarisation Horizontal-Horizontal configuration
• HV: Dual-polarisation Horizontal-Vertical configuration
• VV: Single-polarisation Vertical-Vertical configuration
• VH: Dual-polarisation Vertical-Horizontal configuration

Samples of the PAZ products are available over ESA's test site at Neustrelitz in Germany, which you can use to preview what the data collections offer in order to assess their type and resolution. If you would like to compare PAZ products with other missions, download sample data from other Third Party Missions.

Each sample data TAR file contains a .TIFF of the processed product, and specifications of the acquired scene.

Download PAZ sample data

• High Resolution Spotlight mode
  • EEC projection:
    • RE HH sample data (37 MB)
    • RE VV sample data (37 MB)
    • SE HH sample data (37 MB)
    • SE VV sample data (37 MB)
  • GEC projection:
    • RE HH sample data (37 MB)
    • RE VV sample data (37 MB)
    • SE HH sample data (219 MB)
    • SE VV sample data (217 MB)
  • MGD projection:
    • RE HH sample data (41 MB)
    • RE VV sample data (40 MB)
    • SE HH sample data (41 MB)
    • SE VV sample data (40 MB)
  • SSC projection:
    • HH sample data (188 MB)
    • VV sample data (187 MB)
• ScanSAR mode:
  • EEC projection: RE HH sample data (506 MB)
  • GEC projection: RE HH sample data (329 MB)
  • MGD projection: RE HH sample data (319 MB)
  • SSC projection: HH sample data (4 GB)
• Spotlight mode:
  • EEC projection:
    • RE HH sample data (62 MB)
    • RE VV sample data (60 MB)
    • SE HH sample data (330 MB)
    • SE VV sample data (322 MB)
  • GEC projection:
    • RE HH sample data (50 MB)
    • RE VV sample data (48 MB)
    • SE HH sample data (272 MB)
    • SE VV sample data (264 MB)
  • MGD projection:
    • RE HH sample data (50 MB)
    • RE VV sample data (48 MB)
    • SE HH sample data (251 MB)
    • SE VV sample data (48 MB)
  • SSC projection:
    • HH sample data (189 MB)
    • VV sample data (188 MB)
• StripMap mode:
  • EEC projection:
    • RE HH sample data (260 MB)
    • RE HH/VV sample data (157 MB)
    • RE VV sample data (348 MB)
    • SE HH sample data (2 GB)
    • SE HH/VV sample data (362 MB)
    • SE VV sample data (2 GB)
  • GEC projection:
    • RE HH sample data (187 MB)
    • RE HH/VV sample data (129 MB)
    • RE VV sample data (262 MB)
    • SE HH sample data (1 GB)
    • SE HH/VV sample data (310 MB)
    • SE VV sample data (1 GB MB)
  • MGD projection:
    • RE HH sample data (181 MB)
    • RE HH/VV sample data (126 MB)
    • RE VV sample data (250 MB)
    • SE HH sample data (1 GB)
    • SE HH/VV sample data (291 MB)
    • SE VV sample data (1 GB)
  • SSC projection:
    • HH sample data (1 GB)
    • HH/VV sample data (1 GB)
    • VV sample data (1 GB)
• Staring Spotlight mode:
  • EEC projection:
    • RE VV sample data (72 MB)
    • SE VV sample data (238 MB)
  • GEC projection:
    • RE VV sample data (64 MB)
    • SE VV sample data (238 MB)
  • MGD projection:
    • RE VV sample data (65 MB)
    • SE VV sample data (218 MB)
  • SSC projection: VV sample data (317 MB)

PAZ data collections

If these samples suit your requirements, learn more about the PAZ data collections and find out how to download products from this mission:

• PAZ ESA Archive
• PAZ Full Archive and Tasking

The PAZ ESA Archive is freely available to download for anyone with an account in ESA's EO Sign In service. The Full Archive and Tasking collection is available to order on demand upon submission of a Project Proposal subject to evaluation and acceptance by ESA and the data owner.

Products distributed via ESA dissemination services – nominally those available in the ESA archive collections – are published in EO-SIP format, which is a package that contains the metadata file, browse images, and original data in their native format.