Key Terms

remote sensing

wavelength

electromagnetic spectrum

micrometer

nanometer

visible light spectrum

UV

band

blue band

green band

red band

IR

NIR

MIR

TIR

atmospheric windows

Rayleigh scattering

Mie scattering

nonselective scattering

transmission

absorption

incident energy

spectral reflectance

spectral signature

NDVI

spatial resolution

brightness values

8-bit imagery

panchromatic imagery

multispectral imagery

hyperspectral imagery

color gun

color composite

true color composite

false color composite

standard false color composite

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