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Radiometric Resolution - definition(s)

radiometric resolution - [physics] The sensitivity of a sensor to incoming reflectance. Radiometric resolution refers to the number of divisions of bit depth (for example, 255 for 8-bit, 65,536 for 16-bit, and so on) in data collected by a sensor.

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Source: esri, 25 July 2012 10:15:53, http://support.esri.com/en/knowledgebase/GISDictionary/term/abbreviation External 


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