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U.S. Satellite Imagery, 1960-1999
higher orbit) back to a ground station, where the signals were recorded on tape and converted into an image. As a result, the U.S. could obtain satellite images of a site or activity virtually simultaneously with a satellite passing overhead.20 The...
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: mental imagery
on the one hand, and imagery representations (or imagery processes) on the other. 1.2 The Relation to Perception There are further potential problems, however, with the brief characterization of imagery given in our introduction. Not only does what is sai...
Eyes on the Bomb
showed thousands of square miles in a single photograph, GAMBIT was designed to photograph much narrower swaths of the earth (only about 120 square nautical miles) but with far greater resolution. The improved resolution would translate into an ability to pr...
Satellite Images...
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Urban Studies and Planning
Development; Environmental Policy and Planning; Housing, Community and Economic Development; and the International Development Group. There are also three cross-cutting areas of study: Transportation Planning and Policy, Urb...
Visions of a Cloudy Continent (DAAC Study)
Antarctica," said Jane Ferrigno of the U.S. Geological Survey's National Center. Prior to the advent of the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR), no other civilian satellite remote sensing system was able to view the entire South Pole area, she sai...
Environmental Literacy: Urban Sprawl
oriented analysis of land use and economic development issues. FOR THE CLASSROOM Urban Growth Seen from Space NASA?s Scientific Visualization Studio describes the expansion of cities around the U.S. using satellite-based images and...
Environmental Literacy: Urban Sprawl
oriented analysis of land use and economic development issues. FOR THE CLASSROOM Urban Growth Seen from Space NASA?s Scientific Visualization Studio describes the expansion of cities around the U.S. using satellite-based images and...
Urban Growth in American Cities (Circular 1252)
use. It includes residential areas, commercial and industrial developments, transportation features, and institutions. Figure 1a. Landsat 5 TM false-color satellite image of the San Francisco Bay region, 1992. Figure 1b. Landsat 5 TM 1991 false-color satel...
Teacher Background: How Satellites Work
(600 miles), the sensors scan the Earth's entire surface over a 24-hour period. The sensors are sensitive to visible light and infrared (IR) radiation. As each NOAA polar-orbiting satellite orbits the Earth, it sends back a constant stream of data. Instruments on board the ...
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