remote sensing

noun

technical

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

Examples of remote sensing in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Our research involves using remote sensing technologies and artificial intelligence to assist in our search for a female in the Ngoye Forest. —Laura Cinti, Ars Technica, 16 June 2024

Moscow retains an edge over Beijing in other key areas, including submarine technology, remote sensing satellites, and aircraft engines. —Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Foreign Affairs, 23 Apr. 2024

The View From Space The remote sensing imagery below, acquired by different satellites, drives home the drama of what happened in mid-May — and what's continuing to occur. —Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 30 May 2024

The tiny satellite was supposed to inflate in orbit and serve as a calibration target for remote sensing equipment. —Passant Rabie / Gizmodo, Quartz, 1 May 2024

Deploying drones and other remote sensing technologies could hasten the hunt. —Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 11 Apr. 2024

The plan calls for using new technology and remote sensing techniques to conduct an inventory of water loss across more than 1,000 public water systems in the state this year. —Susan Montoya Bryan, Fortune, 31 Jan. 2024

Environmental factors associated with these changes during the same period were collected using remote sensing data, according to the paper. —Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 14 Mar. 2024

Still, this new private data trove may be less visible to remote sensing engineers and scientists than publicly available, if not yet centralized, data and software produced by NASA and other government agencies. —IEEE Spectrum, 20 Feb. 2024