They are designed to be used with a smartphone app which shows a radar image covering a 200ft (61m) radius.

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The type of image displayed on this page is known as a synthetic aperture radar interferogram.

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Down the road from UCSD, 30-foot screens at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography project geomorphic data obtained from radar, sonar and satellites, combined into a single 3-D image.

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