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  title info:
    title: Watching Earth from Space
    sub title: How Surveillance Helps Us -- and Harms Us
  name:
    name part: Norris, Pat.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxu
    date issued: 2010
    edition: 1.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XX, 284 p. online resource.
  abstract: - 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.
  table of contents: 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.
  note: by Pat Norris.
  subject:
    topic: Geography
  subject:
    topic: Remote sensing
  subject:
    topic: Physical measurements
  subject:
    topic: Measurement
  subject:
    topic: Nature
  subject:
    topic: Environment
  subject:
    topic: Aerospace engineering
  subject:
    topic: Astronautics
  subject:
    topic: Geography
  subject:
    topic: Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry
  subject:
    topic: Popular Science in Nature and Environment
  subject:
    topic: Measurement Science and Instrumentation
  subject:
    topic: Aerospace Technology and Astronautics
  classification: GA102.4.R44
  classification: G70.39-70.6
  classification: 910.285
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer Praxis Books
  identifier: 9781441969385
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6938-5
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    record creation date: 101113
    record change date: 20151204185551.0
    record identifier: 978-1-4419-6938-5