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Passive Vs Active Sensors

Remote sensing uses sensors to collect data from a distance about objects and their properties. Active sensors emit signals while passive sensors detect reflected sunlight. Hyperspectral imaging offers better spectral resolution than multispectral. Signatures identify surface properties and composition through reflectance across wavelengths.

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Passive Vs Active Sensors

Remote sensing uses sensors to collect data from a distance about objects and their properties. Active sensors emit signals while passive sensors detect reflected sunlight. Hyperspectral imaging offers better spectral resolution than multispectral. Signatures identify surface properties and composition through reflectance across wavelengths.

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Science-based technology called remote sensing makes it possible to collect data


and evaluate a body from far away. It is utilized for remote information gathering
and imaging. In this way, remote sensing can be used to generate spatial data that
would otherwise be hard to get or even unattainable.

2. Active sensors produce their own signals, which are analyzed when the Earth's
surface reflects them back. It gathers information about Earth by responding to
internal stimuli. A passive sensor records the amount of solar radiation that is
either transmitted or received by surface-level objects. The most prevalent
radiation source that passive sensors can detect is the reflected sunlight.

3. In comparison to multispectral imaging, hyperspectral remote sensing offers a


better spectral resolution by measuring the reflectance of objects using very
narrow and continuous wavelengths. On the other hand, broader wavelengths are
utilized by multispectral remote sensor. Despite having a lower spectral resolution
than hyperspectral imaging, they nonetheless offer a wide range of details about
the properties of the objects. The low spatial resolution and high acquisition
costs of hyperspectral imaging can be successfully addressed by Spectral Super-
Resolution (sSR), a crucial approach for creating hyperspectral images from only
RGB data.

4. A blackbody is a body that radiates the most heat relative to its absolute
temperature. The radiated energy is heavily influenced by the object's temperature.
It is a physical body that has been idealized and has certain characteristics.
Real objects don't heat up as much as an ideal black body would.

5. When designing a sensor, engineers usually keep the atmospheric window in mind.
They must be aware of the spectral bands that various sensors can detect. In
addition to using visible light (red, green, and blue), non-visible light is also
used in remote sensing that's why it is very important to consider atmospheric
windows during the design phase.

6. The spectral signature is the connection across the wavelength of


electromagnetic radiation and the surface's reflectivity. The form and content of
the material are just two factors that have an impact on the signature. The data
about the surface, such as its composition (for example, flora, bare soil, etc.),
can be thru the spectral signature.

7. Electromagnetic radiation that interacts with the atmosphere and objects is


measured through remote sensing. This interaction with the surface of the Earth
gives details about the electromagnetic radiation's direction, and strength, in
addition to the distance between the sensor and the item. These measurements can
provide positional details about the objects and hints about the surface material's
properties.

8. Multiple scenes can be aligned into a single integrated image using the image
processing technique known as image registration. When overlaying images, it aids
in overcoming common problems including image rotation, size, and skew. In order to
align images from various camera sources, image registration is frequently employed
in medical and satellite imagery. In order to align and join nearby photos into a
single panoramic view, digital cameras use image registration.

9. Remotely sensed image have four different resolutions namely Spectral, Spatial,
Temporal and Radiometric. Spatial resolution refers to the smallest object that can
be detected by the sensor or the smallest discriminate unit. The portion of the
electromagnetic spectrum that the sensor can detect determines the spectral
resolution. Temporal resolution is the amount of time that has passed between a
remote sensor's first capture of an area and a subsequent capture of the same
region. Lastly, radiometric resolution is the ability of a remote sensor system to
detect minute variations in intensity levels.

10. Selective radiation is produced by an object when its electromagnetic radiation


has a different spectral energy distribution than a blackbody with the same
temperature.

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