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TRUE-COLOUR IMAGE [1 record]

Record 1 2017-05-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Remote Sensing
DEF

An image in which the bands which most closely represent visible red, green, and blue have been assigned to red green and blue, thus producing an image which is similar in colour to what we see with the naked eye.

OBS

true colour image: term officially approved by the RADARSAT-2 Terminology Approval Group (RTAG).

Key term(s)
  • true color image

French

Domaine(s)
  • Télédétection
DEF

Image dont les bandes spectrales qui se rapprochent le plus du rouge, du vert et du bleu, dans le visible, sont transposées en rouge, en vert et en bleu générant ainsi une image couleur similaire à ce qui est perçu à l'œil nu.

CONT

[...] les mangroves [...] ne peuvent être ou sont à peine distingués sur l'image en couleur naturelle (carte précédente), mais se distinguent nettement de la végétation adjacente sur cette image.

OBS

image en couleur naturelle : terme uniformisé par le Groupe de travail de la terminologie de RADARSAT-2 (GTTR).

Spanish

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