Remote Sensing C

[whythelongface]

My bad, looks like I greatly overestimated the sizes of the particles.

It looks like I should correct my mistake.

Since the size of the particles in a colloid are generally a bit smaller than or equal in size to the wavelengths in the visible light region of the spectrum, colloids display a slight Rayleigh scattering that is actually more accurately described as Mie scattering. Longer wavelengths do not scatter as well as short wavelengths when encountering particles of that size; for this reason, smoke, aerosol, milk, etc, will appear slightly blue, as predicted by both Rayleigh and Mie theory.

[fleicol1]

Does any one have good resources that we could for satellite imagery.

[knottingpurple]

Does any one have good resources that we could for satellite imagery.

https://climate.nasa.gov/images-of-chan ... uth-africa has many landsat images but they have pairs of images of the same locations, with descriptions of what you're looking at, so you can actually learn how an image with a certain feature differs from one without.

Other than that, I would recommend following NASA and other organisations with satellites on Twitter, Tumblr, whatever, because they often post satellite images they've taken recently which are especially beautiful, important, etc.

[geniusjohn5]

What physics knowledge would be recommended for this event? Currently, I'm taking AP Physics 1 and learning mechanics(Energy, force, kinematics, etc.)

[knottingpurple]

What physics knowledge would be recommended for this event? Currently, I'm taking AP Physics 1 and learning mechanics(Energy, force, kinematics, etc.)

There is some mechanics relating to satellite orbits, so if you know the universal law of gravity and how circular motion works it's probably useful, but mostly Remote Sensing uses optics knowledge from physics, which isn't covered in a Physics 1 class probably so you might need to self study it. A lot of it can be done with formulas, though, so you can put them on your notes sheet and don't need to memorize them.

[alchzh]

Do we need to know specifics about certain methods of spectroscopy like FTS?

Late edit cause no one replied: How do you fit so much information about bands of instruments and stuff in your notes D:... just GOES and Terra and NPP is quite a lot... should I put in stuff like ETM+, MSS, etc.? what about history as well?

[Skink]

Does anybody understand the last question of the 2017 Nationals test?

[biz11]

What's the question?

[whythelongface]

Does anybody understand the last question of the 2017 Nationals test?

The entire test was a blur, would you please remind me what the last question was?

[Skink]

I can't post the question because SO sells the exam; I was kind of hoping folks had copies of the test somewhere. It had graph sketching related to aerosols or something along those lines.