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The manuscript presents a novel approach to pulse repetition frequency (PRF) selection in order to obtain a uniform distribution of samples at given platform positions. A digital beamforming algorithm is applied on a stack of monostatic repeat-pass images collected by the Sentinel-1 system to test the validity of the PRF selection method. Processed images were thus properly selected to achieve the best merit index measuring the quality of samples distribution. 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