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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multiband camera

Earth science; Remote sensing

System that simultaneously acquires photographs of the same scene at different wavelengths.

advanced very high resolution radiometer (AVHRR)

Earth science; Remote sensing

A multispectral imaging system carried by the TIROS-NOAA series of meteorological satellites. The crosstrack multispectral scanner on the polar-orbiting satellite acquires five ...

azimuth

Earth science; Remote sensing

Geographic orientation of a line given as an angle measured in degrees clockwise from north.

line drop out

Earth science; Remote sensing

The loss of data from a scan line caused by malfunction of one of the detectors in a line scanner.

Planck's Law

Earth science; Remote sensing

An expression for the variation of emittance of a blackbody at a particular temperature as a function of wavelength.

contrast enhancement

Earth science; Remote sensing

Image-processing procedure that improves the contrast ratio of images. The original narrow range of digital values is expanded to utilize the full range of available digital ...