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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.
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trade-off
Earth science; Remote sensing
As a result of changing one factor in a remote sensing system, there are compensating changes elsewhere in the system; such a compensating change is known as a trade-off.
saturation
Earth science; Remote sensing
In the IHS system, represents the purity of color. Saturation is also the condition where energy flux exceeds the sensitivity range of a detector.
blind spot
Earth science; Remote sensing
The point of the optic nerve to the retina where no radiation is detected by the eye.
emulsion
Earth science; Remote sensing
Suspension of photosensitive silver halide grains in gelatin that constitutes the image-forming layer on photographic film.
Landsat
Earth science; Remote sensing
A series of unnamed earth-orbiting NASA satellites that acquire multispectral images in various visible and IR bands.
complementary colors
Earth science; Remote sensing
Two primary colors of light (one additive and the other subtractive) that produce white light when added together. Red and cyan are complimentary colors.
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