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Remote sensing
The process of using aerial sensor technologies to detect and classify objects on Earth both on the surface, and in the atmosphere and oceans by means of propagated signals.
Industry: Earth science
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Remote sensing
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.
