The invention concerns a procedure and a circuit arrangement for a coherent, high-resolution pulse radar applicable to distances from several tens of meters down to less than one meter and which evinces at the same time an accuracy in the cm range; the application is in particular to industrial monitoring operations.Two highly stable pulse sequences are generated in the transmitter and differ only slightly with respect to their pulse repetition frequencies. Both sequences are shaped into microwave pulse bundles and one sequence is processed into transmitter pulses, the other sequence being processed into scanning pulses for a time-expansion procedure. Heterodyning with the scanning pulses takes place in the receiver mixer, the result being a combined formation of intermediate-frequency (IF) and time-expansion. In this manner the signal bandwidth is already decreased by the time-expansion factor in the IF part. This is made possible in that coherent phases are used, i.e., there is an arbitrary but constant time relationship between the rising edge of the controlling pulse and the starting time (initial phase) of the carrier oscillation produced in the microwave oscillator. The oscillators used are microwave resonators driven by extremely short control pulses.