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2. Sentinel-2 - Wikipedia

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   Satellite images will be used to determine various plant indices such as leaf area chlorophyll and water content indexes. This is particularly important for effective yield prediction and applications related to Earth's vegetation. As well as monitoring plant growth, Sentinel-2 is used to map changes in land cover and to monitor the world's ...

3. Remote sensing - Wikipedia

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   An Earth observation satellite or Earth remote sensing satellite is a satellite used or designed for Earth observation (EO) from orbit, including spy satellites and similar ones intended for non-military uses such as environmental monitoring, meteorology, cartography and others.

4. Wikimapia - Wikipedia

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   The Wikimapia website provides a Google Maps API-based interactive web map that consists of user-generated information layered on top of Google Maps satellite imagery and other resources. The navigation interface provides scroll and zoom functionality similar to that of Google Maps.

5. List of satellite pass predictors - Wikipedia

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   Satellite AR, by Analytical Graphics augmented reality view of the sky for currently visible satellites only. Includes modes for ISS and bright objects as well as modes which include the thousands of all known satellites. [13] Satellite Passes, supports world map view, augmented reality view, satellite footprint, simulation mode and ...

6. Aerial photography - Wikipedia

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   Large sets of orthophotos, typically derived from multiple sources and divided into "tiles" (each typically 256 x 256 pixels in size), are widely used in online map systems such as Google Maps. OpenStreetMap offers the use of similar orthophotos for deriving new map data.

7. Timeline of first images of Earth from space - Wikipedia

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   The first "coarse maps of the solar radiation reflected by the Earth and the infrared radiation emitted by the Earth", from a mission launched on October 13, 1959. [21] 1960 TIROS-1: First television image of Earth from space and first weather satellite picture. [22] August 18, 1960 CORONA