Earth science

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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along

Earth science; Remote sensing

Track scanner-Scanner with a linear array of detectors oriented normal to flight path. The IFOV of each detector sweeps a path parallel with the flight direction.

geothermal

Earth science; Remote sensing

Refers to heat from sources within the earth.

high-pass filter

Earth science; Remote sensing

A spatial filter which selectively enhances contrast variations with high spatial frequencies in an image. It improves the sharpness of images and is a method of edge ...

raster

Earth science; Remote sensing

The scanned and illuminated area of a video display, produced by a modulated beam of electrons sweeping the phosphorescent screen line by line from top to bottom at a regular rate ...