The SARCASTIC user manual can be found in the doc folder. It will tell you how to install the suite of tools and provide a basic tutorial that shows you how to use SARCASTIC to simulate a SAR collection and then view the resulting image.
To install the SARCASTIC tools you will need the following installed and working on your system:
- cmake (Version > 3.13.2 - on some systems called cmake3)
- git (Version > 2.17)
- gdal (Version > 2.3.2_1)
- opencl (Version > 1.2)
- expat (Version > 2.2.1)
- fftw (Version > 3.3.8)
- boost (Version > 1.68.0_1)
- CGAL (Version > 4.13)
- readline (Version > 7.0.5)
SARCASTIC uses a pretty basic CAD model file format called .ply (Stanford Triangle Format). You can find out more about it at http://paulbourke.net/dataformats/ply/. There are many ways to make a .ply file from a CAD model. My preferred way at the moment is to use Sketchup Make (Its free) and export the file as a collada file before conversion to a .ply file. A useful (and pretty awesome) tool to visualise your CAD model is meshlab which can be obtained from http://www.meshlab.net. There are some useful python scripts in the scripts folder. To use these you will need python-2.7 installed.
SARCASTIC is compiled using the cmake build system. To build sarcastic just type the following commands from the command line:
$ mkdir build
$ cd build
$ cmake .. (or cmake3 ..)
$ make
$ make install
To package sarcastic up to give to others you have a couple of choices. If you just want to sent the source code as a tarball (without any version control history such as git) you type the command
$ make dist
If you want to move a precompiled distribution then the command is :
$ make package
