remote sensing

noun

technical
: the use of satellites to collect information about and take photographs of the Earth

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Beyond his business, Gustafson also spent almost three decades teaching at a prominent research university in Virginia, passing his expertise on to students, some of whom went on to careers in environmental monitoring, intelligence, and remote sensing. Matthew Kayser, USA Today, 8 Sep. 2025 Chinese media reports suggest the Guowang satellites could accommodate a range of instrumentation, including broadband communications payloads, laser communications terminals, synthetic aperture radars, and optical remote sensing payloads. Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 20 Aug. 2025 In a landscape park in western Poland, remote sensing equipment discovered long, triangular formations below the surface, according to a July 9 Facebook post from the Team of Landscape Parks of the Greater Poland Voivodeship. Irene Wright july 14, Miami Herald, 14 July 2025 Field research can also be used in the opposite direction: to ground-truth the output from numerical models and remote sensing analyses. Sarah Boon june 25, Literary Hub, 25 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for remote sensing

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