Imagery and Remote Sensing Insights (IRIS) COP Blog

Synthethic Aperture Radar, or SAR for short, has a reputation for being an unintuitive, complex, and a niche Earth observation technology that is only used by researchers. While this may be true to an extent, SAR data allows analysts to monitor remote environments persistently that would be otherwise impossible through optical satellite sensors. This is extremely important and valuable in places such as the Amazon Rainforest or Alaska, where traditional optical satellites are obstructed by constant cloud coverage.

Discover Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Imagery and Remote Sensing capabilities at Esri and find resources describing how to process and analyze SAR satellite imagery in ArcGIS Pro with the Image Analyst extension.