Questions tagged [remote-sensing]
This tag can be used for questions pertaining to earth and planetary surface imagery and while discussing the principles regarding it.
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Is it possible to determine the Sun's angle of illumination and elevation/altitude from the horizon using satellite imagery?
Google Maps' imagery for the year 2025 imagery, has been recently updated. It can be seen that different imagery has different illumination angles created by the Sun. Using the shadows caused by ...
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How to estimate the strewn-field for a given meteorite fall?
Considering that a bolide event was observed from a specific location and at two points, there were bursts and fragmentation, it'll imply, that it must have impacted/landed somewhere. In such a case, ...
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Why do remote sensing satellites have payloads whose bands' resolutions are more than 1 m?
I was working on satellite data from LISS-III (23.5 m), IV (5.8 m), AWIS (54 m) and Sentinel-2 satellite bands (2, 3, 4 and 8). What caught my eye was the fact that their resolution is more than 1 m (...
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