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active sensor, 87laser scanning, 101, 390radar, 103, 349

additive colour, 174aerial camera, 99, 319aerial sensor

AIS, 482AVIRIS, 482PMI, 482

altimeter, 97aperture, 358atmospheric window, 71

binary encoding, 472black-body, 62BRDF, 578Brovey transform, 207

classificationsubpixel, 477

classification algorithm

box, 301maximum likelihood, 304minimum distance to mean, 303

colourhue, 176IHS system, 176perception, 170RGB system, 174saturation, 176spaces, 173YMC system, 178

coordinate system, 111, 228

dead ground effect, 333DEM, 242digital number, 92digitizing, 248DSM, 241DTM, 241

end-member, 477

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error of commission, 308error of omission, 308

false colour composite, 180feature space, 285field of view, 136film, 325

scanning, 339speed, 327

filterkernel, 198optical, 322

filter operationsaveraging, 200edge enhancement, 202

flat-field correction, 469focal length, 136, 321

general sensitivity, 326geocoding, 235geographic coordinates, 112geometric transformation, 229

residual errors, 232root mean square error, 232

georeferencing, 229gravimeter, 489, 492grey-body, 445ground control point, 230

histogram, 190cumulative, 190equalisation, 197

hyperspectral imaging, 464

IHS transformation, 207image classification

supervised, 295unsupervised, 297

imaging spectrometry, 464imaging spectroscopy, 464interferometry, 375

differential, 380interpretation elements, 262

kinetic temperature, 448Kirchhoff’s law, 446

Lagrangian points, 586land use, 309lens distortion, 321

magnetometer, 489mixel, 310monoplotting, 248

nadir, 134, 225

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geostationary, 126polar, 125sun-synchronous, 126

orthoimage, 250orthophoto, 250overall accuracy, 307overlap, 336

passive sensor, 87pattern, 263photon, 57, 60pixel, 95

mixed, 310Planck’s constant, 60

qualityimage classification, 306photo-interpretation, 273

radar, 348azimuth direction, 355bands, 352differential interferometry, 380equation, 350foreshortening, 365, 367ground range, 356ground range resolution, 358imaging, 350

incidence angle, 356interferogram, 378interferometry, 375layover, 365multi-look, 363polarisation, 353range direction, 355real aperture, 358shadow, 365Single-Look-Complex, 378slant range, 356slant range resolution, 358synthetic aperture, 359

radiatorselective, 445

red edge, 480reflectance, 67, 80

bidirectional, 480reflectance curve

soil, 83vegetation, 81water, 85

reflectiondiffuse, 79specular, 79

relief displacement, 225replicability, 273


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resamplingbicubic, 238bilinear, 238nearest neighbour, 238

resolutionradiometric, 93spatial, 95spectral, 91temporal, 120

satellite sensorALI, 153, 576ALOS, 388AlSAT-1, 585Aqua, 568Artemis, 582, 585ASAR, 154, 580, 582ASTER, 150, 568Aura, 568AVHRR, 149, 565Cartosat-1, 152, 572Cartosat-2, 573CHRIS, 153, 578Envisat-1, 153, 580, 584EO-1, 153, 576ERS-1, 103, 582ERS-2, 154, 582ETM+, 149, 566

GERIS, 464GRACE, 493HIRIS, 464HRC, 578Hyperion, 153, 483Ikonos, 137, 574IRS-1C, 151, 572IRS-1D, 151, 572LAC, 576Landsat, 90, 120, 566LEWIS, 483LISS4, 151, 572MERIS, 154, 580, 582Meteosat-8, 159, 563MODIS, 150, 568MSS, 90, 566NOAA, 45, 141, 565Oceansat-1, 572OrbView, 45, 574OSA, 574PALSAR, 388Proba, 153, 578QuickBird, 152, 574Resourcesat-1, 151, 572SEVIRI, 148, 563SIS, 482SMIRR, 482


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Terra, 150, 483, 568TES, 572Thai-Paht-2, 586TM, 99Tsinghua-1, 585

scale factor, 332scattering

Mie, 76non-selective, 76Rayleigh, 74volume, 372

scatterometer, 349scatterplot, 286Snell’s Law, 371sonar, 104speckle, 368spectral angle mapper, 473spectral matching, 471spectral sensitivity, 132, 326, 328spectral unmixing, 473, 476spectrometer

field, 80gamma ray, 98imaging, 97

Stefan-Boltzmann law, 444subpixel, 477subtractive colours, 178

temperaturekinetic, 448radiant, 448

texture, 262

validation, 292


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