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Satellites
Of or relating to any man-made object launched to orbit Earth or another celestial body.
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gain
Aerospace; Satellites
A general term used to denote an increase in signal power in transmission from one point to another. Gain is usually expressed in decibels.
ground control point (GCP)
Aerospace; Satellites
A geographic feature of known location that is recognizable on images and can be used to determine geometric corrections to those images.
skew correction
Aerospace; Satellites
A geometric correction made on Landsat imagery to offset the skewing effect of the Earth's rotation during scene acquisition.
worldwide reference system (WRS)
Aerospace; Satellites
A global indexing system for Landsat data, first developed in Canada, which is based on nominal scene centers defined by path and row coordinates. See path, row.
histogram
Aerospace; Satellites
A graphical representation of a frequency distribution by means of lines or rectangles that represent class intervals along the x-axis, and corresponding class frequencies along the y-axis; a ...
byte
Aerospace; Satellites
A group of consecutive bits (usually 8 bits) that is operated upon as a single unit of information in a digital computer; usually shorter than a word.
cubic convolution
Aerospace; Satellites
A high-order resampling technique in which the brightness value of a pixel in a corrected image is interpolated, from the brightness values of the 16 nearest pixels around the location of the ...
