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Remote sensing
The process of using aerial sensor technologies to detect and classify objects on Earth both on the surface, and in the atmosphere and oceans by means of propagated signals.
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topographic inversion
Earth science; Remote sensing
An optical illusion that may occur on images with extensive shades. Ridges appear to be valleys, and valleys appear to be ridges. The illusion is corrected by orienting the image so that the ...
topographic reversal
Earth science; Remote sensing
A geomorphic phenomenon in which topographic lows coincide with structural highs and vice versa. Valleys are eroded on crests of anticlines to cause topographic lows, and synclines form ridge, or ...
transparency
Earth science; Remote sensing
Image on a transparent photographic material, normally a positive image.
terrain
Earth science; Remote sensing
Surface of the earth. A particular geographic area or a region.
absolute temperature
Earth science; Remote sensing
Temperature measured on the Kelvin scale, whose base is absolute zero, i.e. -273¡C; 0¡C is expressed as 273K.
