satellite imagery
noun
: pictures taken from satellites
They used satellite imagery to see the ice caps.
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In addition to government sources, Livability also uses satellite imagery and business association data.
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Carolyn Stein, Chicago Tribune, 14 Apr. 2026
The Yale School of Public Health’s Humanitarian Research Lab, which tracks the war through satellite imagery, said this month that the RSF had received military support from a base in Ethiopia.
—ABC News, 14 Apr. 2026
And many outlets, including NPR, used satellite imagery to show that a strike at a girl's elementary school in Iran was part of a larger set of targets at a nearby military base.
—Geoff Brumfiel, NPR, 10 Apr. 2026
Despite the billions of dollars that companies such as Google and OpenAI have poured into building massive AI models, the tools still do a poor job of, say, visually analyzing satellite imagery or answering questions about what an image is missing but should have, Dai said.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 9 Apr. 2026
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Carolyn Stein, Chicago Tribune, 14 Apr. 2026
The Yale School of Public Health’s Humanitarian Research Lab, which tracks the war through satellite imagery, said this month that the RSF had received military support from a base in Ethiopia.
—ABC News, 14 Apr. 2026
And many outlets, including NPR, used satellite imagery to show that a strike at a girl's elementary school in Iran was part of a larger set of targets at a nearby military base.
—Geoff Brumfiel, NPR, 10 Apr. 2026
Despite the billions of dollars that companies such as Google and OpenAI have poured into building massive AI models, the tools still do a poor job of, say, visually analyzing satellite imagery or answering questions about what an image is missing but should have, Dai said.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 9 Apr. 2026
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“Satellite imagery.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/satellite%20imagery. Accessed 16 Apr. 2026.
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