Text: "Radar images of the earth from space." Use of synthetic aperture radar in satellites to form photographs or maps of the earth from backscattered microwaves. May involve scalar interferometry. Penetration of the earth's surface and the ocean's surface is experienced. Scientific American. 247(6), Dec. 1982. p. 54-61.

See Also: artificial scalar interferometry, backscattering, synthetic aperture radar, satellite maps, anomalous phenomena.

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