Synthetic Aperture Radar Courses and Certifications

Synthetic Aperture Radar: Hazards

5 ratings at edX

This online course focuses on the applications of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) remote sensing for disaster monitoring. Learn about weather and illumination-independent SAR remote sensing technology,

• edX
• 4 weeks, 4-6 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Synthetic Aperture Radar: Foundations

13 ratings at edX

This online course provides foundational knowledge of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) remote sensing including SAR imaging, SAR interferometry, and the concepts of polarimetric SAR. The individual conc

• edX
• 4 weeks, 4-6 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Synthetic Aperture Radar: Ecosystems

This online course will introduce the contributions of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) remote sensing to the monitoring of Earth’s ecosystems. Learn how the weather-independence of SAR combined with it

• edX
• 4 weeks, 4-6 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Career Certificate

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR): Applications

Foundational knowledge of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) remote sensing and earth observation including SAR imaging, SAR interferometry, and the concepts of polarimetric SAR.

• edX
• 12 weeks, 4-6 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• $618.00
• 3 courses

Australian Water School

Advancing Groundwater-Dependent Ecosystem Detection Using Radar

Learn how Sentinel-1 synthetic aperture radar can detect groundwater-dependent ecosystems across regions without cloud-related data gaps.

• YouTube
• 41 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Confreaks

Passive Bistatic RADAR Using Spaceborne Sentinel1 Non-Cooperative Source - GRCon21

Explore passive bistatic RADAR using Sentinel1 satellite, B210 receiver, and Raspberry Pi4. Learn to map reflectors and process Synthetic Aperture RADAR with minimal investment.

• YouTube
• 30 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

合成孔径雷达技术原理与应用

系统学习合成孔径雷达地学应用，涵盖形变监测、海洋遥感与陆地环境遥感。

• XuetangX
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Aeroecology: Exploring Biodiversity with Radar

Use radar to study airborne life: interpret radar data outputs and visualisations, quantify species biomass, measure abundance and diversity, and weigh the technology's taxonomic limits.

• Coursera
• 2 weeks, 5 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

University of New South Wales;  IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society

Remote Sensing Image Acquisition, Analysis and Applications

186 ratings at Coursera

Learn how satellite and airborne imagery is acquired, corrected for radiometric and geometric distortion, classified with SVMs, neural networks and k-means, and interpreted from radar and SAR.

• Coursera
• 15 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Packt

Satellite Remote Sensing Data Bootcamp With Opensource Tools

Analyze optical and SAR satellite data with open-source tools: preprocess Landsat in QGIS and R, compute vegetation and texture indices, and classify imagery with machine learning.

• Coursera
• 6 weeks, 1 hour a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Coursera

Process SAR & Multispectral

Estimate flood extent from satellite data: apply speckle filtering to SAR, run multispectral change detection over time, and judge classification accuracy before sharing results.

• Coursera
• 3 weeks, 1 hour a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Coursera

Raster Processing & Remote Sensing

Process satellite raster data with Rasterio and GDAL, calculate NDVI, apply speckle filtering to SAR, detect flood and vegetation change, and evaluate classification accuracy.

• Coursera
• 13 weeks, 1 hour a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

AI for Earth Observation

Explore AI for Earth observation through semantic segmentation, change detection, SAR and hyperspectral architectures, multimodal fusion, and vision foundation models.

• Swayam
• Available until Oct 9, 2026
• Free Online Course

IIT Kharagpur;  NPTEL

Principles and Techniques of Modern Radar Systems

Explores radar design from range equations and Doppler filtering through tracking, imaging, ground-penetrating radar, and radar tomography.

• Swayam
• 12 weeks
• Available until Oct 9, 2026
• Free Online Course

Geospatial Science: Remote Sensing

This course conveys geospatial remote sensing concepts starting with the basics of imaging and geospatial data. It introduces airborne remote sensing and provides an introduction to multispectral imag

• edX
• 4 weeks, 4-6 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)