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geosatellite en · NOUN

Etymology

From geo- + satellite.

Meanings

1. A satellite that orbits the earth, especially one that maintains communication with a receiver on earth.
   • Digital images of any sort, from family photographs to medical Xrays to geosatellite images, can be treated as data. 2014, August E. Grant, Jennifer H. Meadows, Communication Technology Update and Fundamentals:
   • For example, consider current norms of espionage, which license the wholesale collection of geosatellite intelligence by the military in wartime, and prohibit intelligence agents from blackmailing or bribing enemy civilians […] 2022, Cécile Fabre, Spying Through a Glass Darkly: The Ethics of Espionage and Counter-Intelligence, page 22:
   • Determining the presence of a person or mobile object in a given zone using geosatellite position and other radiocommunication methods. 2017, Jean-Luc Lefebvre, Space Strategy, page 342:
   • One imaginative artist has hooked up a geosatellite device that detects the wobble of the satellite to a digital piano and “played” the wobble music—it sounds quite like a Philip Glass or Steve Reich minimalist music. 2012, Don Ihde, Listening and Voice:

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