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atmospheric remote sensing  

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  • Remote sensing can be broadly defined as the process of collecting data through means that do not involve physical contact. For example, the process of reading this text is an example of remote sensing, since your eye is gathering information about written letters on the page. [Source: Encyclopedia of Geography; Atmospheric Remote Sensing]

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