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

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

Japan has launched a new optical reconnaissance satellite to boost the country’s remote sensing capabilities, Space News reports. —Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 19 Jan. 2024

The team measured the wall by comparing field surveys and remote sensing data with architectural studies, per a statement from France’s National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS). —Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Jan. 2024

The payload for this mission is the Sentinel 2C remote sensing satellite, part of Europe's Copernicus Earth-monitoring constellation. —Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 15 Dec. 2023

Currently, remote sensing by satellite is the only monitoring for the remote volcano, which lacks any seismic monitoring. —Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 7 Oct. 2010