Fifth OPERA Stakeholder Engagement Workshop

OPERA will host a 4-hr 30-min (8:30 am - 1:00 pm) virtual workshop on Thursday, Sept. 11, 2025.

Participation is open to US federal agencies, contractors, the commercial sector, and academic researchers. To register, please use the OPERA Fifth Workshop Registration Form.

In this OPERA workshop, we will report on the following:

• Updates of OPERA data products that are in production:
  • Near-global Dynamic Surface Water eXtent (DSWx)
  • Near-global Surface Disturbance (DIST)
  • North America Surface Displacement (DISP)
  • Near-global Radiometric Terrain Corrected SAR Backscatter (RTC)
  • North America Coregistered Single-Look Complex(CSLC)
• Overview of upcoming OPERA products that will be released in 2026:
  • Near-global Dynamic Surface Water eXtent from NISAR (DSWx-NI)
  • North America Surface Displacement from NISAR (DISP-NI)
  • Near-global Surface Disturbance from Sentinel-1 (DIST-S1)
• Introduce the upcoming North AmericaVertical Land Motion (VLM) products
• Demonstrate how to access and leverage OPERA products for common applications
• Learn how stakeholders are using OPERA products and solicit feedback

We will also offer opportunities for end-users to present their use (or plans to use) of OPERA products in the form of oral presentations.

Oral presentations are for stakeholders who are using OPERA products. Please let us know if you are interested in presenting your work by contacting the OPERA team (opera.sep@jpl.nasa.gov).

In addition, we offer technical guidance and expert consultations to our valued federal agency end-users in using OPERA data products to address their analysis and observation needs and ensure integration into decision making. Federal agency end-users who are interested in this offer are encouraged to contact the OPERA team (opera.sep@jpl.nasa.gov).