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Earth science
Any of several geological sciences that are concerned with the earth, its origins, and all of its various structures and physical forms and phenomena.
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training site
Earth science; Remote sensing
Area of terrain with known properties or characteristics that is used in supervised classification.
non-spectral hue
Earth science; Remote sensing
A hue which is not present in the spectrum of colors produced by the analysis of white light by a prism of diffraction grating. Examples are brown, magenta, and pastel shades.
lineament
Earth science; Remote sensing
Linear topographic or tonal feature on the terrain and on images, maps, and photographs that may represent a zone of structural weakness.
overlap
Earth science; Remote sensing
Extent to which adjacent images or photographs cover the same terrain, expressed as a percentage.
Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite
Earth science; Remote sensing
A NOAA satellite that acquires visible and thermal IR images for meteorologic purposes.
resolution target
Earth science; Remote sensing
Series of regularly spaced alternating light and dark bars used to evaluate the resolution of images or photographs.
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