RTC Product

The Radiometric Terrain Corrected (RTC) SAR Backscatter product consists of radar backscatter normalized with respect to the topography. The RTC product is generated from Sentinel-1 as the input dataset and has the short name RTC-S1. The RTC-S1 product is a Level-2 product that is projected onto pre-defined UTM/Polar stereographic map projection systems. The Copernicus global 30 m (GLO-30) Digital Elevation Model (DEM) is the reference DEM used to correct for the impacts of topography and to geocode the product. The RTC product maps signals largely related to the physical properties of the ground scattering objects, such as surface roughness and soil moisture and/or vegetation. The RTC product also serves as the basis for the DSWx-S1 and DIST-S1 products. The product is provided in a GeoTIFF file format and has a posting of 30 m. All products will be accessible through the Alaska Satellite Facility Distributed Active Archive Center (ASF DAAC).

Below we provide the RTC product specification document as well as the corresponding product samples conforming to the detailed specifications.

With the following accuracy (details are captured in RTC-S1 calval database)

Jupyter Notebook Tutorials
Guides below are written in Jupyter notebook environment outline and are intended to outline product introductions and showcase select applications.

• Mosaicking and visualizing RTC
  How to mosaic and visualize RTC-S1 images.
  RTC Application

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