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Thermal Imagery From Space

The MapScaping Podcast - GIS, Geospatial, Remote Sensing, earth observation and digital geography

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Is Spatial Resolution a Good Proxy for Quality of Imagery?

We're imaging with a detector that has a resolution of about three and a half meters, so kind of mid range resolution. And typically what we're do is overlay the thermal image on to high resolution ar g b image, so you can over see understand iga that heat signature is associated with that chimney stack over there. So absolutely, we use them in combination with other imagery sources. We often talk about spatial resolution, and i think sometimes people get get lost in this idea. Do you think spacial resolution is a good proxy for quality of imagery, or quality of data?

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