Introduction to remote sensing

What is remote sensing?

Remote sensing is a self-explanatory term where someone can get a sense of something remotely, without the need to visit that something. There are clear examples of things that are part of our daily life that invloves remote sensing.

What kind of things remote sensing can do?

Remote sensing can be a powerful tool that can be handy in certain situations. Below are two examples of what it can monitor:

• WQP
• soil-conditions

• Can be used throughout different types of rivers, such as urban river rural river areas

• Actual spatial-temporal analysis of soil conditions can be measured throughout the year by using satellite imagery that orbits our planet Earth

Satellite-based remote sensing

There will be multiple wavelengths that a satelleite will give from a single image. Below is the table for Sentinel-2 satellite.

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• note that the corresponding band number and wavelength may differ across different satellites