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Radar is an electronic device that uses electromagnetic waves to detect targets. Early radar systems used time delays to measure the distance between the radar and the target, and they determined the direction of the target through the antenna pointing, and then used the Doppler shift to detect target velocity.

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Long, T., Hu, C., Ding, Z., Dong, X., Tian, W., Zeng, T. (2018). Introduction. In: Geosynchronous SAR: System and Signal Processing. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-7254-3_1

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