The ratio of the total solar radiant energy returned by a planetary body to the total radiant energy incident on the body, the called:
A. Reflectance
B. Reflectance factor
C. Albedo
D. None of these
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Which one of the following parameters is accurate for DGPS?
A. Positional accuracies ~ 1 - 2 m if rover is less than 1-2 km from the reference station
B. Positional accuracies ~ 2 - 5 m if rover is less than 2-5 km from the reference station
C. Positional accuracies ~ 5 - 10 m if rover is less than 5-10 km from reference station
D. Positional accuracies ~ 5 - 10 m if rover is less than 25 km
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Which one of the following errors is produced by platform characteristics of the sensor?
A. Altitude variation
B. Altitude
C. Orbit drift
D. All of these
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If electric permittivity and magnetic permeability of the medium are respectively ε and μ , then the velocity (Cm ) of the electromagnetic wave in the medium is given by:
A. C m = ε μ 1
B. C. D. None of these
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The altitudinal distance of a geostationary satellite from the earth is about:
A. 26,000 km
B. 30,000 km
C. 36,000 km
D. 44,000 km
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Which one of the following statements is correct regarding the GPS satellites?
A. The nominal altitude is about 20,200 km
B. The inclination of axis satellite is 55°
C. The satellite transmits two L band signals (L1 with 1575.42 MHz and L2 with 1276.6 MHz)
D. All of these
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For C band Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) with Doppler band width of 1300 Hz, the coherence length loch is:
A. 130 km
B. 230 km
C. 250 km
D. 500 km
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Remote sensing techniques make use of the properties of ___________ emitted, reflected or diffracted by the sensed objects:
A. Electric waves
B. Sound waves
C. Electromagnetic waves
D. Wind waves
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A perfectly black body:
A. Is a diffuse emitter
B. Absorbs all the radiations of every wave lengths
C. Emits power of every wave length
D. All the above
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Which one of the following parameters is considered to determine the reflectance of a vegetation canopy?
A. Solar zenith angle
B. Azimuth angle
C. Look angle
D. All of these
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Which one of the following statement is correct?
A. Radiant energy expressed in Joules, is the energy associated with electromagnetic radiation
B. The rate of transfer of radiant energy is called flux and is expressed in watts
C. The radiant energy which falls upon a surface is termed as irradiance
D. All of these
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The coherence length over which there is a strong relationship between amplitudes is;
A. Directly proportional to the bandwidth
B. Inversely proportional to the bandwidth
C. The square of the bandwidth
D. None of these
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Crop Acreage and Production Estimation (CAPE) was funded and taken up in 1983 by:
A. USA
B. European Union
C. Russia
D. India
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"An Electromagnetic wave falls on to a boundary between two losses less homogeneous media with different refractive indices, a part of the wave is reflected back to the incident medium and the rest is transmitted on to the second media". This phenomenon is known as:
A. Fresnel reflection
B. Fresnel refraction
C. Snell's law
D. None of these
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Which one of the following geometric errors of satellite sensors is random?
A. Scan skew
B. Panoramic distortion
C. Earth rotation
D. Altitude variation
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In GPS, receivers are used are;
A. Electronic clocks
B. Atomic clocks
C. Quartz clocks
D. Mechanical clocks
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Geodimeter is based on:
A. Propagation of modulated light waves
B. Propagation of infrared radiation
C. The visible light as carrier with frequency of the order of 5 × 1014 Hz
D. High frequency radio waves
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If flying height of a spacecraft is H, the length of air base is B and the parallax difference between two points is dp, then the difference in height
A. h = H B dp
B. h = H B × dp
C. h = B H dp
D. h = BHbp
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In case of reflection and refraction of electromagnetic radiation,
A. Angle of incidence = angle of refraction
B. Angle of incidence = angle of reflection
C. Angle of refraction = sum of the angles of incidence and refraction
D. All the above
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Electromagnetic radiation:
A. Produces a time varying magnetic field and vice versa
B. Once generated, remains self-propagating
C. Is capable to travel across space
D. All of these
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