Earth  Planets and Moons  ID: 10517

Remote Sensing Conceptual Animation

Released on November 4, 2009
Satellite remote sensing is a tool for gathering information, usually about what is at the surface of Earth or planets and their moons, but also about the atmosphere. Remote sensing data are commonly combined with other kinds of data (typically, from field or "on-the-spot" studies [commonly called ground truth]) to act together as a system (for example, Geographic Information Systems, or GIS.
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This conceptual animation illustrates the basic idea of satellite remote sensing. Satellite measurements are taken from a number of orbiting spacecraft and data is relayed back to to the ground.
 

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Credits

Megan Willy (IRC/UMBC): Animator
Ivy Flores (IRC/UMBC): Animator
Michelle Williams (UMBC): Producer
Jennifer A. Shoemaker (UMBC): Producer
Jefferson Beck (UMBC): Producer
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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

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Agriculture Animations - Global Agricultural Monitoring

Keywords:
SVS >> HDTV
SVS >> Remote Sensing
SVS >> Satellite
NASA Science >> Earth
NASA Science >> Planets and Moons