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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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Bit
Earth science; Remote sensing
Contraction of binary digit, which in digital computing represents an exponent of the base 2.
Laser
Earth science; Remote sensing
Light artificially stimulated electromagnetic radiation: a beam of coherent radiation with a single wavelength.
Stefan
Earth science; Remote sensing
Boltzmann law-States that radiant flux of a blackbody is equal to the temperature to the fourth power times the Stefan-Boltzmann constant.
Layover
Earth science; Remote sensing
In radar images, the geometric displacement of the top of objects toward the near range relative to their base.
Pulse length
Earth science; Remote sensing
Duration of a burst of energy transmitted by a radar antenna, measured in microseconds.
Aerial magnetic survey
Earth science; Remote sensing
Survey that records variations in the earth's magnetic field.
Granularity
Earth science; Remote sensing
Graininess of developed photographic film that is determined by the texture of the silver grains.
