Comprehensive Technologies for Space Archaeology

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Earth observation takes the Earth as the research object to rely on space platforms such as satellites, spacecraft, near-space vehicles, and the ground and use various detection means of visible light, infrared ray, hyper-spectrum, and microwave to acquire data and process them into information products.

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Guo, H., Wang, X., Chen, F., Wang, C. (2024). Comprehensive Technologies for Space Archaeology. In: Introduction to Space Archaeology. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-6965-4_5

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