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Far range

The portion of a radar beam farthest from the spacecraft flight path.

Feature

A feature is a cartographic point, line, or polygon object with a spatial location in the real-world landscape that can be used in a GIS for storage, visualization, and analysis.

Foreshortening

A distortion in radar images causing the lengths of slopes facing the antenna to appear shorter on the image than on the ground.