{"id":3506,"date":"2026-02-19T11:38:01","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T10:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esa-schoolatlas.eu\/esa-schoolatlas\/?post_type=glossary&#038;p=3506"},"modified":"2026-02-19T11:38:01","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T10:38:01","slug":"false-colour","status":"publish","type":"glossary","link":"https:\/\/esa-schoolatlas.eu\/esa-schoolatlas\/de\/glossary\/false-colour\/","title":{"rendered":"false colour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A colour imaging process which produces an image of a colour that does not correspond to the true or natural colour of the <a class=\"glossaryLink\" title=\"Glossary: scene\" aria-describedby=\"tt\" data-cmtooltip=\"&lt;div class=glossaryItemTitle&gt;scene&lt;\/div&gt;&lt;div class=glossaryItemBody&gt;Object space illuminated or analyzed by a sensor during a measurement. Satellite image data are often provided as individual scenes.&lt;\/div&gt;\" href=\"https:\/\/esa-schoolatlas.eu\/esa-schoolatlas\/de\/glossary\/scene\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-gt-translate-attributes='[{\"attribute\":\"data-cmtooltip\", \"format\":\"html\"}]' tabindex=\"0\" role=\"link\">scene<\/a> (as seen by our eyes). In <a class=\"glossaryLink\" title=\"Glossary: Earth observation\" aria-describedby=\"tt\" data-cmtooltip=\"&lt;div class=glossaryItemTitle&gt;Earth observation&lt;\/div&gt;&lt;div class=glossaryItemBody&gt;Observation of the Earth from space, mostly based on satellites.&lt;\/div&gt;\" href=\"https:\/\/esa-schoolatlas.eu\/esa-schoolatlas\/de\/glossary\/earth-observation\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-gt-translate-attributes='[{\"attribute\":\"data-cmtooltip\", \"format\":\"html\"}]' tabindex=\"0\" role=\"link\">Earth observation<\/a> often used e.g. with infrared data (<a class=\"glossaryLink\" title=\"Glossary: false colour\" aria-describedby=\"tt\" data-cmtooltip=\"&lt;div class=glossaryItemTitle&gt;false colour&lt;\/div&gt;&lt;div class=glossaryItemBody&gt;A colour imaging process which produces an image of a colour that does not correspond to the true or natural colour of the scene (as seen by our eyes). In Earth observation often used e.g. with infrared data (False colour Infrared, FIR).&lt;\/div&gt;\" href=\"https:\/\/esa-schoolatlas.eu\/esa-schoolatlas\/de\/glossary\/false-colour\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-gt-translate-attributes='[{\"attribute\":\"data-cmtooltip\", \"format\":\"html\"}]' tabindex=\"0\" role=\"link\">False colour<\/a> Infrared, FIR).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A colour imaging process which produces an image of a colour that does not correspond to the true or natural colour of the scene (as seen by our eyes). 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