[PP2-3-8-5] Shadow

Radar Shadow occurs on slope facing away from the sensor, if the slope angle is steeper than the sensor incidence angle. Shadow regions appear dark in the image, as no signal reaches them. Only small backscatter changes are principally due to system noise.

External resources

• ESA (2020). Radar Course 3. Shadow. Earth Online.
  ESA (2020). Radar Course 3. Shadow. Earth Online.
• Franceschetti, G., Lanari, R. Synthetic Aperture Radar Processing, CRC Press: Boca Raton, FL, USA, 1999.

Learning outcomes

• 2016 - Produce a geometrically corrected SAR image

  Produce a geometrically corrected SAR image

• 2018 - Explain and discuss what the shadow in SAR acquisition means

  Explain and discuss what the shadow in SAR acquisition means

Self assessment

Outgoing relations

• [PP2-3-8-5] Shadow subclassof [PP2-3-8] Terrain reflectivity and geometric distortions

Contributors

• Clémence Dubois
  https://www.linkedin.com/in/cl%C3%A9mence-dubois-272b8a110/?originalSubdomain=de