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synthetic aperture radar
nounDefinition of synthetic aperture radar
: a radar system that uses the motion of the vehicle (such as a spacecraft) carrying it to simulate a system having a much larger antenna area and that is used to obtain high-resolution images of a surface (as of a planet)
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