panchromatic
- adjective
- /ˌpæŋkrəˈmætɪk/
- Specialized
- A panchromatic film captures images with sensitivity to all visible colors, making it ideal for landscape photography.
- panchromatic band
Examples
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For the April 18th image, both the 15-meter panchromatic band and the aerial photograph were tested to spatially enhance the image.
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By 1944, the Technicolor system had an effective speed of around 12 ASA, compared to the 80 ASA panchromatic stock that helped Greg Toland achieve his bravura deep focus a few years earlier in Citizen Kane (1941).
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The panchromatic band has a spatial resolution of 15 by 15 meters.
Academic text (2007) -
As the infrared ray-sensitive film is sensitive to blue, the exposure without a filter may produce a panchromatic effect.
Academic text (1995) -
The panchromatic band was used to spatially enhance the September 25 image since no aerial photograph was available (Figure 15).
Academic text (2007) -
Accuracy assessment compared the change images to panchromatic aerial photography at 1:50,000 from the South African National Geospatial Information Center.
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It was artificially sharpened with the 1-meter panchromatic data to produce an effective ground resolution of 1 meter.
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PHOTO (BLACK & WHITE): IKONOS 1-meter panchromatic image of Hoover Dam, Nevada, acquired on 25 December 1999.
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Absorption due to CO2 doubling is simply below the detection threshold of a panchromatic instrument of the type that Ångström used.
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MonoCL SP includes panchromatic CL imaging to provide imaging with high spatial resolution and is supplied with the company's Digital Micrograph software with a CL plug-in.
Academic text (2003)
Compounds
- Specialized
Material for taking pictures that records light in colors we can see
How Sensitive
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Morphology
Etymology
The word panchromatic is made of pan- meaning 'all', as in panorama, and chromatic from chroma meaning 'color'. So panchromatic describes film or sensors that are sensitive to all the visible colors, which is why they can record more natural, real images.