autoRIFT binding

[leiyangleon]

Hello, I was wondering if autoRIFT is directly included in the isce3 installation as done in isce2.

Is there any update in isce3 that would potentially improve the workflow of topsApp(up to mergebursts)+autoRIFT?

[hfattahi]

Hi Yang,
No autoRift is not currently included in isce3. ISCE3 developments is driven by NISAR and therefore the software does not formally support Sentinel-1 yet. As we will add Sentinel-1 support to isce3 we can build other algorithms within isce3. It can be discussed if we should have many workflows (such as autoRift, topsApp, stripmapApp, etc) within isce3 or have isce3 to stay as core module library and other workflows in different repositories could use isce3 as needed. For example I can imagine that autoRift could have its own repository and its own dependencies which would be for example isce3 and openCV, etc. This way, isce3 dependencies won't go out of hand and will remain limited and manageable. What I'm trying to clarify here is not specific to autoRIFT but the same discussion applies to any other workflow. I'm interested to hear others opinions on this topic.