Picture element

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picture element

(Acronym pixel.) The smallest element (spectral or spatial) sensed by a satellite sensor.

A pixel generally appears as a rectangle with a uniform shade or color. A row of pixels forms a scan line, and a series of scan lines forms an image.


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