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

• Main Author: Norris, Pat (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Praxis : Imprint: Praxis, 2010.
• Edition: 1.
• Series: Springer Praxis Books
• Subjects: Geography.; Remote sensing.; Physical measurements.; Measurement.; Nature.; Environment.; Aerospace engineering.; Astronautics.; Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry.; Popular Science in Nature and Environment.; Measurement Science and Instrumentation.; Aerospace Technology and Astronautics.

- 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...

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.