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Suggestion: Include data downloader #1

@Niels-TT

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@Niels-TT

Hi Alexey,

Great work, this is indeed much less daunting for new InSAR software users than diving into a large codebase of an open-source InSAR package.

People will be able to follow/read the calculations happening without digging very deep into a large codebase, which takes time to understand properly and also requires a certain level of software understanding.

However, I do think you could reach more potential users with this if the data needed to run the scripts could be downloaded easily through a ready-made script in the repo.

To be able to run the scripts, I now have to create a new script or notebook in the repo, paste parts of the 2019 Turkey notebook example (for the S1 example), fill in the correct desired output location of files, and run it to download and prepare the data.

Now I understand that you actively avoid duplication, and indeed the steps the user should take are not complicated, but I still think that at least a significant percentage of potential new users can get stuck here and abandon ship.

IMO, it is better to aim for something that works out of the box, especially for educational purposes. Perhaps you could make a script that downloads and prepares the NISAR and S1 data needed to run the educational scripts.

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