Overall the software is in the **alpha** phase and the usual caveats apply.
A few features, identified as *technology preview* below, are not fully usable yet.
- supports the following data products as [distributed by ESA](https://scihub.copernicus.eu/dhus/#/home):
- Sentinel-1 Single Look Complex (SLC):
- Stripmap (SM)
- Interferometric Wide Swath (IW)
- Extra Wide Swath (EW)
- Wave (WV) - *technology preview*
- Sentinel-1 Ground Range Detected (GRD) SM/IW/EW/WV - *technology preview*
- creates ready-to-use [Xarray](https://xarray.pydata.org) `Dataset`s that map the data
lazily and efficiently in terms of both memory usage and disk / network access
- reads all SAR imagery data: GRD images, SLC swaths and SLC bursts
- reads several metadata elements:
satellite orbit and attitude, ground control points, radiometric calibration look up tables,
Doppler centroid estimation and more
- reads uncompressed and compressed SAFE data products on the local computer or
on a network via [*fsspec*](https://filesystem-spec.readthedocs.io) - *technology preview*
- allows larger-than-memory and distributed processing via [*dask*](https://dask.org)