What is scanning?

  • (noun): The process of translating photographs into a digital form that can be recognized by a computer.
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Some articles on scanning:

Scanning The Movies
... Scanning the Movies is a Canadian educational television series which debuted in September 1997, and takes a look at current films to understand and analyze films ... Scanning the Movies is presented in classrooms as part of the Cable in the Classroom project ...
Scanning Confocal Electron Microscopy
... Scanning confocal electron microscopy (SCEM) is an electron microscopy technique analogous to scanning confocal optical microscopy (SCOM) ... studied sample is illuminated by a focussed electron beam, as in other scanning microscopy techniques, such as scanning transmission electron microscopy or scanning electron microscopy ...
Applications Using A Scanning SQUID Microscope
... Scanning SQUID Microscope can detect all types of shorts and conductive paths including Resistive Opens (RO) defects such as cracked or voided bumps, Delaminated Vias ... SQUID scanning can also isolate defective components in assembled devices or Printed Circuit Board (PCB) ...
Scanning Thermal Microscopy
... Scanning thermal microscopy (SThM) is a type of scanning probe microscopy that maps the local temperature and thermal conductivity of an interface ... The probe in a scanning thermal microscope is sensitive to local temperatures - providing a nanoscale thermometer ...
List Of Chemical Analysis Methods - S
... Scanning electron microscope (SEM) Scanning X-ray microscope (SXM) also called Scanning transmission X-ray Microscope (STXM) ...

More definitions of "scanning":

  • (noun): The act of systematically moving a finely focused beam of light or electrons over a surface in order to produce an image of it for analysis or transmission.