Glossary for Geospatial Science

brightness:� The physical property indicating how much electromagnetic radiation is being reflected or radiated by a chosen point.� Brightness is similar to the HIS property of Intensity, and is used in the HBS color model.� Brightness is also the property computed from Landsat MSS or TM images by Kauth�s greenness, brightness, wetness transformations.� (See also: HBS, HIS.)