Remote sensing

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

thermal IR multispectral scanner (TIMS)

Earth science; Remote sensing

Airborne scanner that acquires multispectral images within the 8-to-14mm band of the thermal IR region.

stereopsis

Earth science; Remote sensing

The ability for objects to be perceived in three dimensions as a result of the parallax differences produced by the eye base.

incidence angle

Earth science; Remote sensing

In radar, the angle formed between an imaginary line normal to the surface and another connecting the antenna and the target.

instantaneous field of view (IV)

Earth science; Remote sensing

Solid angle through which a detector is sensitive to radiation. In a scanning system, the solid angle subtended by the detector when the scanning motion is stopped.

An image where the continuous variation in the property being sensed is represented by a continuos variation in image tone. In a photograph this is achieved directly by the grains of photosensitive ...

mixed pixel

Earth science; Remote sensing

A pixel whose DN represents the average energy reflected or emitted by several types of surface present within the area that it represents on the ground; sometimes called a mixel.