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.
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Table of Contents:
- Note continued: Managing large imagery files
- Thermal and multi-spectral imaging
- future of imagery in verification
- Introduction
- Tactical surveillance
- Keyhole: US optical reconnaissance satellites
- Commercial imaging satellites
- Russian imaging satellites
- Other countries
- China
- France and continental Europe
- Great Britain
- Israel
- India
- Japan
- Radar imaging
- Missile early warning
- Getting the images back quickly
- Unmanned aircraft
- Introduction
- Satellites being listened to [-] and listening
- Military
- Monitoring the oceans
- Spying on the spies
- Money no object
- Soviets/Russians: ocean surveillance
- Soviets/Russians: eavesdropping
- Other countries
- France
- China
- UK.