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Industry that includes methods of travel and spacecraft for navigating the air or space.
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noise
Aerospace; Satellites
Any unwanted disturbance affecting a measurement (as of a frequency band), especially that which degrades the information-bearing quality of the data of interest. Noise ...
return beam vidicon (RBV)
Aerospace; Satellites
As used on Landsat 1 and 2, a camera system which operated by shuttering three independent cameras simultaneously, each sensing a different spectral band in the range of 0.48 to ...
ancillary
Aerospace; Satellites
Auxiliary; accessory. in remote sensing, ancillary data are secondary data, pertaining to the area or classes of interest, such as topographic, demographic, or climatological ...
radiometric reflective band calibration: radiance
Aerospace; Satellites
Calibration equations to convert unitless values from an optical satellite imager in Digitals Numbers (DNs) to engineering or scientific units such as at-satellite radiance or ...
calibration parameter file
Aerospace; Satellites
Computer files of fixed parameters used in the ground processing system to convert raw uncalibrated bits from a spacecraft imager to radiometrically calibrated, artifact-reduced ...
orthorectified
Aerospace; Satellites
Describing an image in which image displacements due to tilt and relief have been removed.
panchromatic
Aerospace; Satellites
Describing films or detectors that are sensitive to broadband electromagnetic radiation (the entire visible part of the spectrum). Landsat 7 has a 15 m "panchromatic" band that ...
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