It's really sad, replying to myself. But it makes sense for threaded types.

We use the term "satellite telemetry" as a catch-all for different oceanographic measurements made by satellites. Obviously the satellites themselves are nowhere near the ocean. But they can and do measure temperature and sea surface height.

Another tele- word (aside from obvious ones like television or telephone) is teletherapy. This refers to "treatment from a distance", which means, in radiotherapy, treatment by linear accelerators and that sort of thing. The radioactive "source" is at some distance from the patient. In contrast, there are treatments where radioactive material is put in close contact with the cancer. This is called brachytherapy and what the heck brachy- means, I don't remember, because I've read more than one conflicting explanation, and I don't own the right sort of dictionary to check it myself.