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Aerospace
Industry that includes methods of travel and spacecraft for navigating the air or space.
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sun satellite
Aerospace; Satellites
British industry will lead the production of Solar Orbiter (SolO), a spacecraft that will travel closer to the Sun than any satellite to date. SolO will take pictures and ...
Kwangmyŏngsŏng-3
Aerospace; Satellites
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 ...
near infrared (NIR)
Aerospace; Satellites
The preferred term for the shorter wavelengths in the infrared region (the entire infrared region extends from about 0.7 µm (visible red) to about 3 µm). The longer wavelength end ...
radiation
Aerospace; Satellites
The process by which electromagnetic energy is propagated through free space by virtue of joint undulatory variations in the electric and magnetic fields in space. This concept is ...
absorption
Aerospace; Satellites
The process by which electromagnetic radiation (EMR) is assimilated and converted into other forms of energy, primarily heat. Absorption takes place only on the EMR that enters a ...
enhancement
Aerospace; Satellites
The process of altering the appearance of an image so that the interpreter can extract more information. Some types of digital enhancements commonly applied to Landsat imagery ...
imagery
Aerospace; Satellites
The products of image-forming instruments (analogous to photography). Used loosely, but acceptably, to refer to Landsat image data products.
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