What are digital numbers in remote sensing?
Digital number in remote sensing systems, a variable assigned to a pixel, usually in the form of a binary integer in the range of 0–255 (i.e. a byte). The range of energies examined in a remote sensing system is broken into 256 bins.
What is digital number value?
Each pixel also has a numerical value, called a digital number (DN), that records the intensity of electromagnetic energy measured for the ground resolution cell represented by that pixel. Digital numbers range from zero to some higher number on a gray scale.