Satellites

Satellites

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

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Satellites

Any marking on illustrative material for the purpose of clarification, such as numbers, letters, symbols, and signs. On digital Landsat products, the annotation (such as date of coverage, sun angle, ...

mask

Aerospace; Satellites

Any material or digital procedure used to obscure or define a part of the image.

image enhancement

Aerospace; Satellites

Any one of a group of operations which improves the interpretability of an image or the detectability of targets or categories in the image. These operations, in the case of Landsat images, include: ...

parameter

Aerospace; Satellites

Any quantity of a problem that is not an independent variable. More specifically, a term which distinguishes, from dependent variables, quantities which are constants or which may be assigned more or ...

map projection

Aerospace; Satellites

Any systematic arrangement of meridians and parallels portraying the curved surface of a sphere or spheroid upon a plane.

ephemeris

Aerospace; Satellites

Any tabular statement of the assigned places of a celestial body (including a manmade satellite) for regular intervals. Ephemeris data help to characterize the conditions under which remote sensing ...

data compression

Aerospace; Satellites

Any technique that condenses the available data so as to make data storage or transmission more efficient. Data compression can be lossy in which some amount of information (data) is lost or lossless ...