| Webster's Online Dictionary |
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| False color | Aerospace | See digital image. (references) | |
| False color | Environment | Reproduction that shows objects in colors other than their true color. Usually refers to color infrared. (references) | |
| False color | Physics | Color added to a photograph of an object, such as a galaxy, to make it look clearer. (references) | |
| False color | Science | A color imaging process which produces an image of a color that does not correspond to the true or natural color of the scene (as seen by our eyes). (references) | |
| False color (Remote Sensing) | Forestry | The use of one color to represent another. For example, the use of red emulsion to represent infrared light in color infrared film (Source: Colwell, R.N., editor in chief. 1983. Manual of remote sensing. 2nd ed. American Society of Photogrammetry, Falls Church, Va.). (references) | |
| False color film | Military | A color film with at least one emulsion layer sensitive to radiation outside the visible region of the spectrum (e.g., infra red), in which the representation of colors is deliberately altered. See also camouflage detection photography. (references) | |
| False color image | Military | An #image where parts of the non-visible EM spectrum are expressed as one or more of the red, green, and blue components, so that the colors produced by the Earth's surface do not correspond to normal visual experience. The most commonly seen false-color images display the very-near infrared as red, red as green, and green as blue. (references) | |
| False color or false color composite image | Aerospace | Used to interpret radiance measurements in infrared portion of the EM spectrum, we assign colors to the bands of interest and then combine them into a "false color" composite image. See Near Infrared Composite (4,3,2) Adding and Shortwave Infrared Composite (7,4,3 or 7,4,2). (references) | |
| False color photograph | Environment | Another term for IR color photograph. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | Top | ||
