Short range synthetic aperture radar (SAR) wasused to study electrically small objects. A metallic rod and a metallic sphere could not be separated in the SAR images. Polarimetric SAR images were analyzed and images corresponding to different antenna orientations were obtained by applying rotation matrices to radar data. The target intensity varied with the rotation angle. Elongation and orientation of the objects could be determined from the ratio of minimum andmaximum intensity. Upper and lower limits for measurable elongation depend on measurement errors.