The project where I needed this is finished. I ended up using a workaround. This post is for documenting additional findings and to offer help to people in the future who might stumble across the same problem.
First of all, what might be the cause? Unfortunately, there is no way to be 100% certain (for me) but I think the problem is caused by the GeoTransform tag in the geoTIFF. The SAR images from ICEYE are not north facing (a.k.a: the top of the image is not north). Instead if you call gdalinfo on it you will notice that it has a GeoTransfrom tag describing how to rotate the image in order to make it north facing.
What I ended up doing is pulling gdal into my MAUI app via a nuget package (I personally used the MaxRev.Gdal since it doesn't require gdal to be installed on the target machines) and I rotate the images manually before displaying it in my application.
Specifically I used to following functions:
(Make sure that you call: GdalBase.ConfigureAll(); when you app starts before using these)
originalDataSet = Gdal.Open("OriginalTiff.tif", Access.GA_ReadOnly);
// warp will make the map north facing, and get rid of the geoTransform tag
using var warpedFile = Gdal.Warp("TempFile.tif", [originalDataSet], new(["-of", "COG", "-t_srs", "EPSG:4326", "-r", "bilinear", "-multi", "-wo", "ALL_CPUS"]), null, null);
//translate will mark the empty pixels as empty, thus making it invisible in the application
using var transformedFile = Gdal.wrapper_GDALTranslate(destinationFile, warpedFile, new([ "-of", "COG", "-co", "ADD_ALPHA=YES", "-a_nodata", "0", "-co", $"NUM_THREADS={Environment.ProcessorCount}"]), null, null);
In case it is confusing why the translate is necessary. After the warp the original image (which is a rectangle) will be roatated. The new image will have to be a rectangle too, but due to the rotation it won't overlap perfectly with the old image. So the new image will have some "padding" where no data is present. I needed to make those parts invisible.
After running the above code the newly created geoTiffs appear as expected.
