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They really couldn't come up with a better name for that than "remote sensing"?

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• Ancapistani 4y ago
  That term has been used as far back as the 60s, based on my personal library.
  • dredmorbius 4y ago
    Slightly earlier, though yes, it largely came into vogue with the emergence of satellite reconnaissance and observations. Google Ngram Viewer: <https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=remote+sensing&year_start=1900&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cremote%20sensing%3B%2Cc0#t1%3B%2Cremote%20sensing%3B%2Cc0A https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=remote+sensing...>
  • anm89 4y ago
    Fair, I've always heard the term in reference to psychics.