Acquiring information about a natural feature or phenomenon, such as the Earth's surface, without actually being in contact with it. USGS remote sensing is usually carried out with airborne or spaceborne sensors or cameras.
This category is also used for airborne imaging, with fire damage for composite burn index, with fire damage for normalized burn ratio, photogrammetry, with image collections for remote-sensing data, with image collections for remote-sensing images, with altimetry measurement for satellite altimetry, with image collections for satellite images, satellite imaging, and space-borne sensing
