Satellites

Satellites

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

Industry: Aerospace

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Partially processed

Aerospace; Satellites

In reference to Landsat images, those scene data which have only been radiometrically, corrected through the ground processing system, labelled Level 1R or L1R data.

In decimal systems kilo stands for 1,000, but in binary systems a kilo is 1,024 (2 to the 10th power). Technically a kilobyte is 1,024 bytes but is often used loosely as a synonym for 1,000 bytes. ...

Emission

Aerospace; Satellites

With respect to electromagnetic radiation, the process by which a body emits electromagnetic radiation as a consequence of its kinetic temperature only.

Bias

Aerospace; Satellites

(1) In image processing, a persistent difference (not due to sampling error) between the true value of a population characteristic and the value obtained through the estimator used resulting in a ...

Multispectral scanner (MSS)

Aerospace; Satellites

(1) A non-photographic imaging system, which utilises an oscillating mirror and fibre optic sensor array. The mirror sweeps from side to side, transmitting incoming energy to a detector array which ...

Algorithm

Aerospace; Satellites

(1) Any method of computation consisting of a comparatively small number of steps, which are specifically adapted to the solution of a problem of some particular type. The steps are taken in a ...

Electromagnetic spectrum

Aerospace; Satellites

(1) A system that classifies, according to wavelength, all energy that moves, harmonically, at the constant velocity of light. (2) A continuum that is conventionally broken into arbitrary segments ...