Watching Earth from Space [electronic resource] :How Surveillance Helps Us -- and Harms Us / by Pat Norris.
by Norris, Pat [author.]; SpringerLink (Online service).
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BookSeries: Springer Praxis Books: Publisher: New York, NY : Praxis : 2010.Edition: 1.Description: XX, 284 p. online resource.ISBN: 9781441969385.Subject(s): Geography | Remote sensing | Life sciences | Astronautics | Earth Sciences | Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry | Popular Science in Nature and Environment | Measurement Science and Instrumentation | Aerospace Technology and AstronauticsDDC classification: 910.285 Online resources: Click here to access online | Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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The threat of satellite images -- Weather satellites -- Climate change -- Commercial surveillance: mapping on a large scale -- Society and survival -- Where am I? Where are they? -- Monitoring nuclear weapons1 -- Military imaging satellites: long-range intelligence -- Military radio surveillance from space -- The future.
- Are satellites a threat to individual privacy? - How bad is climate change and global warming? - Why can we not find Osama bin Laden? - Does the world have enough fresh water? Watching Earth from Space gives you the answers to these and many other burning questions of the day. This is the story of how our planet is being monitored by hundreds of space-borne instruments for both military and peaceful reasons. It highlights the technical challenges of those instruments and describes the agencies that gather useful information from them. But as well as all the essential monitoring performed by satellites - such as mapping natural or man-made disasters, agricultural performances, weather, and climate change to name a few - there is a growing swell of public opinion that they are being used by governments to erode personal privacy and freedom. This book looks at the possible conflict between public good and market forces, and the future development of new systems to deal with new needs.
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