Watching Earth from Space
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.
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.
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 16.11.2010 |
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Reihe/Serie | Space Exploration | Springer Praxis Books |
Zusatzinfo | XX, 284 p. |
Verlagsort | New York |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 168 x 240 mm |
Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik |
Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz | |
Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie | |
Technik ► Fahrzeugbau / Schiffbau | |
Technik ► Luft- / Raumfahrttechnik | |
ISBN-10 | 1-4419-6937-3 / 1441969373 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-4419-6937-8 / 9781441969378 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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