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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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line scanner
Earth science; Remote sensing
An imaging device which uses a mirror to sweep the ground surface normal to the flight path of the platform. An image is built up as a strip comprising lines of data.
circular scanner
Earth science; Remote sensing
Scanner in which a faceted mirror rotates about a vertical axis to sweep the detector IFOV in a series of circular scan lines on the terrain.
Systeme Probatoire d'Observation del la Terre (SPOT)
Earth science; Remote sensing
Unmanned French remote sensing satellite orbiting in the late 1980s.
ground range
Earth science; Remote sensing
On radar images, the distance from the ground track to an object.
positive photograph
Earth science; Remote sensing
Photographic image in which the tomes are directly proportional to the terrain brightness.
Rayleigh scattering
Earth science; Remote sensing
Selective scattering of light in the atmosphere by particle that are small compared with the wavelength of light.
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