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Satellites

Of or relating to any man-made object launched to orbit Earth or another celestial body.

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digital image

Aerospace; Satellites

A digital image, or digitized image, or digital picture function of an image, is an image represented numerically in digital form and is obtained by partitioning the area of the image into a finite ...

wave

Aerospace; Satellites

A disturbance which is propagated in a medium in such a manner that at any point in the medium the quantity serving as the measure of the disturbance is a function of time, while at any instant the ...

lookup table

Aerospace; Satellites

A file of values from which functions corresponding to a given argument can be obtained. A table lookup procedure is employed.

L band

Aerospace; Satellites

A frequency between 390 MHz and 1.55 GHz which is used for satellite communications and for terrestrial communications between satellite equipment.

image transformation

Aerospace; Satellites

A function or operator that takes an image as its input and produces an image as its output. Depending on the transform chosen, the input and output images may appear entirely different and have ...

density slicing

Aerospace; Satellites

A general class of electronic or digital techniques used to assign linage points or data vectors to particular classes based on the density or level of the response in a single image or channel; ...

thermal band

Aerospace; Satellites

A general term for intermediate and long wavelength infrared-emitted radiation, as contrasted to short wavelength reflected (solar) infrared radiation. In practice, generally refers to infrared ...

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