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  2. Remote sensing - Wikipedia

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    Remote sensing is the acquisition of information about an object or phenomenon without making physical contact with the object, in contrast to in situ or on-site observation. The term is applied especially to acquiring information about Earth and other planets .

  3. Environmental monitoring - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. Environmental monitoring is the processes and activities that are done to characterize and describe the state of the environment. It is used in the preparation of environmental impact assessments, and in many circumstances in which human activities may cause harmful effects on the natural environment. Monitoring strategies and programs ...

  4. Remote sensing in geology - Wikipedia

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    Richat Structure by Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM). Instead of being a meteorite impact, the landform is more likely to be a collapsed dome fold structure.. Remote sensing is used in the geological sciences as a data acquisition method complementary to field observation, because it allows mapping of geological characteristics of regions without physical contact with the areas being ...

  5. Satellite imagery - Wikipedia

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    There are five types of resolution when discussing satellite imagery in remote sensing: spatial, spectral, temporal, radiometric and geometric. Campbell (2002) [ 6 ] defines these as follows: Spatial resolution is defined as the pixel size of an image representing the size of the surface area (i.e. m 2 ) being measured on the ground, determined ...

  6. Georeferencing - Wikipedia

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    Georeferencing or georegistration is a type of coordinate transformation that binds a digital raster image or vector database that represents a geographic space (usually a scanned map or aerial photograph) to a spatial reference system, thus locating the digital data in the real world. [1][2] It is thus the geographic form of image registration ...

  7. Image registration - Wikipedia

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    Image registration is the process of transforming different sets of data into one coordinate system. Data may be multiple photographs, data from different sensors, times, depths, or viewpoints. [ 1 ] It is used in computer vision, medical imaging, [ 2 ] military automatic target recognition, and compiling and analyzing images and data from ...

  8. Synthetic-aperture radar - Wikipedia

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    Synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) is a form of radar that is used to create two-dimensional images or three-dimensional reconstructions of objects, such as landscapes. [1] SAR uses the motion of the radar antenna over a target region to provide finer spatial resolution than conventional stationary beam-scanning radars.

  9. Thermal remote sensing - Wikipedia

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    Thermal remote sensing. (Redirected from Thermal Remote sensing) Thermal Infrared Image by Mars Odyssey's thermal emission imaging system of Mars. Thermal remote sensing is a branch of remote sensing in the thermal infrared region of the electromagnetic spectrum. [1] Thermal radiation from ground objects is measured using a thermal band in ...