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Watching Earth from Space How Surveillance Helps Us -- and Harms Us




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Genere:Libro
Lingua: Inglese
Editore:

Praxis

Pubblicazione: 11/2010
Edizione: 2010





Trama

Our planet is constantly monitored by hundreds of space-borne instruments. This book describes the technology of those instruments and the sciences that provide useful information from them. It also discusses the political implications of space-borne monitoring. From the moment satellites were launched into orbit their ability to see what was happening on a global scale was appreciated — and feared. This well researched book strives to answer such diverse questions as: Are satellites really a threat to individual privacy? How bad, really, is climate change and global warming? Why can’t we find Osama bin Laden? Does the world have enough fresh water? The military side of the story is linked to the big security issues that we face, such as terrorism and civil wars. The civilian side of the story involves numerous successful collaborations in weather forecasting, navigation, communications, and other such "peaceful" uses of satellite surveillance. How the world handles the knowledge gained from these Earth watchers will be critical in the years to come, and Norris skillfully leads us through the issues and possible paths we can take.




Sommario

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.




Autore

Watching Earth from Space derives from the author’s unique experience of being part of the team that developed Europe’s first and Japan’s latest generations of weather satellites, of using satellite images to monitor the UK potato and sugar beet crops, and helping to define the use of satellites to monitor global change and prevent nuclear war. Pat Norris’s direct access to politicians, civil servants, technologists, and both military and civilian users of space images worldwide has also proved essential to the accuracy of the story told in this book. This book is the natural successor to Pat Norris’s book on the origins of spy satellites: Spies in the Sky (Springer-Praxis, 2008), which told the story of the first military satellites to monitor the Earth.










Altre Informazioni

ISBN:

9781441969378

Condizione: Nuovo
Collana: Springer Praxis Books
Dimensioni: 240 x 168 mm Ø 518 gr
Formato: Brossura
Illustration Notes:XX, 284 p.
Pagine Arabe: 284
Pagine Romane: xx


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