remote sensing

{
  "id": "MLC-T-AGR-005441",
  "term": "remote sensing",
  "field": "Agriculture and food",
  "definition": "The practice of obtaining information about the Earth's surface land and water features from images acquired at a distant vantage point. Includes aerial photography, satellite imaging and radar sensing methods.",
  "synonyms": [
    "satellite data"
  ],
  "subject": "Fields of Study",
  "see_also": [
    "geospatial technology",
    "moderate resolution imaging spectroradiometer",
    "Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer",
    "unmanned aerial vehicles",
    "grid maps",
    "canopy",
    "Doppler radar",
    "vegetation index",
    "normalized difference vegetation index",
    "satellites",
    "fractional vegetation cover",
    "aerial surveys",
    "satellite surveys",
    "Earth Observing System",
    "radar",
    "global positioning systems",
    "hyperspectral imagery",
    "multispectral imagery",
    "telemetry",
    "lidar",
    "base maps",
    "spatial data",
    "panchromatic imagery"
  ],
  "references": [
    "NAL Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary"
  ],
  "translations": {
    "es": "teledetección"
  },
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/agriculture/remote-sensing/"
}