The invention relates to the technical field of SAR (
Synthetic Aperture Radar)
image processing, and particularly discloses an SAR image
terrain radiation correction method considering
overlay and shadow regions, which comprises the following steps: acquiring an SAR image, a DEM (
Digital Elevation Model) image and a source file in a research region; carrying out multi-view
processing on the original SAR image,
resampling the DEM image, and carrying out
radiometric calibration; geometric positioning is carried out according to the RD model by adopting an indirect positioning method, lookup tables A and B are generated, and images are registered; detecting pixels of the
overlay area and the shadow area; calculating an effective scattering area corresponding to each SAR pixel; and performing
radiation correction according to the effective scattering area, repairing a back
scattering coefficient value of the shadow area, and finally performing geometric correction. According to the method, the topographic effect caused by an SAR imaging mechanism and
topographic relief is eliminated to a certain extent, the
radiation correction effect of an area with large
topographic relief is improved, and the corrected product can be widely applied to the fields of ground feature inversion and classification, deformation detection, target detection and the like.