Watching Earth from Space: How Surveillance Helps Us – and Harms Us by Pat Norris
English | PDF | 2010 | 299 Pages | ISBN : 1441969373 | 198.78 MB
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.