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by jefecoon 3364 days ago
Ask your student(s) to look at a map, or better yet, open up Google Maps and flip to 'Earth' view.

All that satellite imagery? Every single pixel, from every single satellite fly-over / observation, all interpreted / post-processed / calculated into actual meaningful data via Pythagorean theorem.

E.g. every data point processed for "incident angle" of the observation platform above parcel/pixel observed. Basics @

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angle_of_incidence_(optics)

http://www.crisp.nus.edu.sg/~research/tutorial/freqpol.htm

Math FTW.

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