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New Technologies

Definitions

Below is a directory of terms used in discussions about remote sensing for natural disasters. Most of the terms have been reproduced from the Canada Centre for Remote Sensing and the UN Department of Humanitarian Affairs.

New technologies have the potential to accelerate a country's development, but a global technology gap remains.

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Spatial data

Data that refer to a location (which may be a specific location on the Earth's surface, or relative to an arbitrary point).