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Basic Theory of Quantitative Remote Sensing

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Quantitative Remote Sensing in Thermal Infrared

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Digital numbers (DNs) are what we get after purchasing data from the data providers (Colwell et al. 1983; Liang 2004). DNs are the scaled integers from quantification that is not a physical quantity. Most quantization systems in remote sensing are linear having 6–12 bits. The DN can be any integer in this set:

$$ \mathrm{DN}\in \left[1,{2}^q\right] $$

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Tang, H., Li, ZL. (2014). Basic Theory of Quantitative Remote Sensing. In: Quantitative Remote Sensing in Thermal Infrared. Springer Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-42027-6_2

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