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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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orbit
Earth science; Remote sensing
Path of a satellite around a body such as the earth, under the influence of gravity.
parallax
Earth science; Remote sensing
Displacement of the position of a target in an image caused by a shift in the observation system.
thematic mapper (TM)
Earth science; Remote sensing
A cross-track scanner deployed on Landsat that records seven bands of data from the visible through the thermal IR regions.
pitch
Earth science; Remote sensing
Rotation of an aircraft about the horizontal axis normal to its longitudinal axis that causes a nose-up or nose-down attitude.
cardinal point effect
Earth science; Remote sensing
In radar, very bright signatures caused by optimally oriented corner reflectors, such as buildings.
false colour image
Earth science; Remote sensing
A color image where parts of the non-visible EM spectrum are expressed as one or more of the red, green, and blue components, so that the colors produced by the Earth's surface do ...
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