Chapter 8 Thermal Infrared Remote Sensing
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CHAPTER 8: Thermal Infrared Remote Sensing
www.gers.uprm.eduEnvironmental Satellite (GOES) collects thermal infrared History of Thermal Infrared Remote Sensing Environmental Satellite (GOES) collects thermal infrared data at a spatial resolution of 8 x 8 km for weather prediction. Full-disk images of the earth are obtained every 30 minutes both day and night by the thermal infrared sensor.
Active and Passive Remote Sensing
www.edc.uri.edu1 Active and Passive Remote Sensing Passive remote sensing systems record EMR that is reflected (e.g., blue, green, red, and near-infrared light) or emitted (e.g., thermal infrared energy) from the surface of the Earth. Active remote sensing systems are not dependent on the Sun’s EMR or the thermal properties of the Earth.
CHAPTER 3: ANTENNAS - MIT OpenCourseWare
ocw.mit.eduantenna temperature is often preferred when passive sensors for radio astronomy or remote sensing are of interest. Equating the power received by an antenna (3.1.5) to the Rayleigh-Jeans power in a transmission line (2.1.16), and integrating over all angles, we obtain: P t …