An Automatic Method for Black Margin Elimination of Sentinel-1A Images over Antarctica

• Published in: Remote Sensing
• Main Authors: Xianwei Wang, David M. Holland
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI AG 2020
• Subjects: Sentinel-1A; black margin; extra wide swath; interferometric wide swath; edge detector; synthetic aperture radar; Science; Q; Antarctic; The Antarctic; The Sentinel; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12071175; https://doaj.org/article/0f4c21297a534d3fab2c5c572be0f395

The Sentinel-1A satellite was launched in April 2014 with a primary C-Band terrain observation with progressive scans synthetic aperture radar (TOPSAR) onboard and has collected plenty of high-quality images for global change studies. However, low magnitude signals around image margins (black margin...