The Basis of Microwave Imaging Radar

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Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) obtains the two-dimensional high-resolution image by means of pulse compression technology in range dimension and synthetic aperture processing in azimuth dimension.

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Yang, R. et al. (2018). The Basis of Microwave Imaging Radar. In: High-Resolution Microwave Imaging. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-7138-6_2

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