False color refers to a group of color rendering methods used to display images in color which were recorded in the visual or non-visual parts of the electromagnetic spectrum. A false-color image is an image that depicts an object in colors that differ from those a photograph (a "true-color" image) would show.
In addition variants of false color such as pseudo color, density slicing and choropleths are used for information visualization of either data gathered by a single grayscale channel or data not depicting parts of the electromagnetic spectrum (e.g. elevation in relief maps or tissue types in magnetic resonance imaging).
Please note the use of false color without a hyphen as a noun phrase, and the addition of a hyphen when used as an adjective, e.g. "false-color image".
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