Watching earth from space : how surveillance helps us -- and harms us / Pat Norris.

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.

Bibliographic Details

Online Access:	Full Text (via Springer)
Main Author:	Norris, Pat
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Springer, ©2010.
Series:	Springer-Praxis books in space exploration.
Subjects:	Artificial satellites in remote sensing. Earth (Planet) > Remote-sensing images. Earth (Planet) Remote-sensing images.