monitoring

Broader Terms

  • BT [SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ACTIVITIES]

Related terms

  • RT change detection
  • RT global ozone monitoring experiment
  • RT multitemporal analysis
Definition

Keeping track of how things change over time. For example, with remote sensing, using several images taken over time, you can monitor the result of logging in a forest or how much of an oil slick in the ocean has been cleaned up or how well crops are growing or how much a glacier has melted or how far a plume of sediment travels in a lake, etc.
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