Satellites

Satellites

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

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Kwangmyŏngsŏng-3, meaning Bright Star-3, is a North Korean Earth observation satellite scheduled to be launched between 12-16 April 2012 to commemorate the centenary of the birth of Kim Il-sung, the ...

Density slicing

Aerospace; Satellites

A general class of electronic or digital techniques used to assign linage points or data vectors to particular classes based on the density or level of the response in a single image or channel; ...

Image transformation

Aerospace; Satellites

A function or operator that takes an image as its input and produces an image as its output. Depending on the transform chosen, the input and output images may appear entirely different and have ...

Worldwide reference system (WRS)

Aerospace; Satellites

A global indexing system for Landsat data, first developed in Canada, which is based on nominal scene centres defined by path and row coordinates. See path, row.

Thermal band

Aerospace; Satellites

A general term for intermediate and long wavelength infrared-emitted radiation, as contrasted to short wavelength reflected (solar) infrared radiation. In practice, generally refers to infrared ...

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 ...

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 ...