A Principles of Synthetic Aperture Radar

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A.1 Introduction Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellites collect swaths of side-looking echoes at a suf- ... To understand why a synthetic aperture is needed for microwave remote sensing from orbital altitude one must understand the concepts of di raction and resolution. Con-

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