# Spatial resolution

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In [physics](/source/physics) and [geosciences](/source/geosciences), the term '''spatial resolution''' refers to [distance](/source/distance) between independent [measurement](/source/measurement)s,<ref>{{Cite journal|title=Synthesis of multispectral images to high spatial resolution: a critical review of fusion methods based on remote sensing physics
|year=2008 |doi=10.1109/TGRS.2007.912448|url=https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00348848|last1=Thomas |first1=C. |last2=Ranchin |first2=T. |last3=Wald |first3=L. |last4=Chanussot |first4=J. |journal=IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing |volume=46 |issue=5 |pages=1301–1312 |s2cid=16089793 }}</ref> or the physical dimension that represents a [pixel](/source/pixel) of the image.  While in some instruments, like [cameras](/source/cameras) and [telescopes](/source/telescopes), spatial resolution is directly connected to [angular resolution](/source/angular_resolution), other instruments, like [synthetic aperture radar](/source/synthetic_aperture_radar) or a network of [weather stations](/source/weather_stations), produce data whose spatial sampling layout is more related to the Earth's surface, such as in [remote sensing](/source/remote_sensing) and [satellite imagery](/source/satellite_imagery).

==See also==
* [Image resolution](/source/Image_resolution)
* [Ground sample distance](/source/Ground_sample_distance)
* [Level of detail](/source/Level_of_detail_(computer_graphics))
* [Resel](/source/Resel)

==References==
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