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the area of a target encircled by the field-of-view of a detector of radiation, or irradiated by an active system

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  • NIST [RD15]
  • RD15: Prokhorov, A. V., R. U. Datla, V. P. Zakharenkov, V. Privalsky, T. W. Humpherys, and V. I. Sapritsky, Spaceborne Optoelectronic Sensors and their Radiometric Calibration. Terms and Definitions. Part 1. Calibration Techniques, Ed. by A. C. Parr and L. K. Issaev, NIST Technical Note NISTIR 7203, March 2005
  • [http://ESA PDGS Glossary, PGSI-GSEG-EOPG-LI-13-0033 (MM-PDGS Glossary Issue 2.0_forReview.docx)](http://ESA PDGS Glossary, PGSI-GSEG-EOPG-LI-13-0033 (MM-PDGS Glossary Issue 2.0_forReview.docx))

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