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[remote sensing]
In remote sensing, a sample of sensed electromagnetic energy traceable to a single physical cell in a sensor whose ground sample distance is defined by the point spread function of the optical system and ground location. A pixel in such an image comes directly from the sensor with only sensor corrections applied.