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What is remote sensing?
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What is remote sensing?
Measurement
- Spatial and Spectral Context
- quantitative
- measures changes in the Earth's surface through time
- The measurement of reflected or emitted radioactive energy from the Earth’s surface, using spatially separated opto-mechanical devices located on ground-based, airborne or space-borne platforms”
Use
- Broader context uses of RS
- human vision
- optical measurements
- sonar
- RADAR (Radio Detection and Ranging)
- Astronomical imagery
- Medical imaging (most of)
- Underpins a lot of environmental science
- Informs environmental decision making
- provides vital communication platform
- e.g. communicating climate change
- Broader context uses of RS
a multi-scale scientific discipline
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- Environmental Studies Mind Map on What is remote sensing?, created by Gemma-Anne Hopkins on 12/02/2019.
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