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Sensitive to light of all colors in the visible spectrum -- used of a photographic emulsion, film, or plate.

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  • The new method, which has been under development for more than five years, adds "panchromatic" cells that are sensitive to all wavelengths of visible light and collect a...
  • Then in middle '30s, late' 30s the panchromatic film came out.
  • SPOT-5 has a maximum ground resolution of 2.5 x 2.5 meters in both panchromatic mode and multispectral operation.
  • Many countries have been covered by aerial photograph: on black and white panchromatic film at a scale of approximately 1/50,000;
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