Satellites

Satellites

Of or relating to any man-made object launched to orbit Earth or another celestial body.

Industry: Aerospace

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tone

Aerospace; Satellites

Each distinguishable variation of shade from black to white.

scenes

Aerospace; Satellites

Each Landsat image collected is called a scene. Each Landsat scene is dimensionally 115 x 106 (185 x 170 km) miles. The globe is divided into 57,784 scenes, and each Landsat 7 scene has about 3 ...

Either of the two points at which the orbit of a heavenly body intersects a given plane, especially the plane of ecliptic. With respect to Landsat, the orbital nodes occur at the equator, one on the ...

ultraviolet radiation

Aerospace; Satellites

Electromagnetic radiation of shorter wavelength than visible radiation but longer than X-rays; roughly, radiation in the wavelength interval between 10 and 4,000 angstroms.

visible radiation

Aerospace; Satellites

Electromagnetic radiation of the wavelength interval to which the human eye is sensitive; the spectral interval from approximately 0.4 to 0.7 µm (4,000 to 7,000 angstroms).

image processing

Aerospace; Satellites

Encompasses all the various operations which can be applied to photographic or image data. These include, but are not limited to: image compression, image restoration, image enhancement, ...

electromagnetic radiation

Aerospace; Satellites

Energy emitted as a result of changes in atomic and molecular energy states and propagated through space at the speed of light, i.e., energy transfer in the form of electromagnetic waves or particles ...