A zonal underground structure detection method based on sun shadow compensation is provided, which belongs to the crossing field of remote sensing technology, physical geography and pattern recognition, and is used to carry out compensation processing after a shadow is detected, to improve the identification rate of zonal underground structure detection and reduce the false alarm rate. The present invention comprises steps of acquiring DEM terrain data of a designated area, acquiring an image shadow position by using DEM, a solar altitude angle and a solar azimuth angle, processing and compensating a shadow area, and detecting a zonal underground structure after the shadow area is corrected. In the present invention, the acquired DEM terrain data is used to detect the shadow in the designated area; and the detected shadow area is processed and compensated, to reduce influence of the shadow area on zonal underground structure detection; finally, the zonal underground structure is detected by using a remote sensing image after shadow compensation, so that the accuracy of zonal underground structure detection is improved and the false alarm rate is reduced compared with zonal underground structure detection using a remote sensing image without shadow compensation processing.