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Earth and Space Sciences · Glossary

What is Spatial, spectral and radiometric resolution; revisit time?

Also known as: spatial resolution · spectral resolution · radiometric resolution · revisit time

Definition 25.2 University Earth and Space Sciences — Year 3 · Chapter 25 — Remote Sensing and GIS

The spatial resolution of an image is the size on the ground of one of its pixels. Its spectral resolution is the number and width of its bands, its radiometric resolution the number of levels in which each measurement is recorded, 2b2^b for bb bits. The revisit time of a satellite is the interval between two of its observations of the same place.

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