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Aerospace
Industry that includes methods of travel and spacecraft for navigating the air or space.
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scenes
Aerospace; Satellites
Each Landsat image collected is called a scene. Each Landsat scene is dimensionally 115 x 106 (185 x 170 km) miles. The globe is divided into 57,784 scenes, and each Landsat 7 ...
orbital node
Aerospace; Satellites
Either of the two points at which the orbit of a heavenly body intersects a given plane, especially the plane of ecliptic. With respect to Landsat, the orbital nodes occur at the ...
ultraviolet radiation
Aerospace; Satellites
Electromagnetic radiation of shorter wavelength than visible radiation but longer than X-rays; roughly, radiation in the wavelength interval between 10 and 4,000 angstroms.
visible radiation
Aerospace; Satellites
Electromagnetic radiation of the wavelength interval to which the human eye is sensitive; the spectral interval from approximately 0.4 to 0.7 µm (4,000 to 7,000 angstroms).
image processing
Aerospace; Satellites
Encompasses all the various operations which can be applied to photographic or image data. These include, but are not limited to: image compression, image restoration, image ...
electromagnetic radiation
Aerospace; Satellites
Energy emitted as a result of changes in atomic and molecular energy states and propagated through space at the speed of light, i.e., energy transfer in the form of ...
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- Space flight (8863)
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