Watching Earth from Space (Record no. 110708)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9781441969385
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024 7# - OTHER STANDARD IDENTIFIER
Standard number or code 10.1007/978-1-4419-6938-5
Source of number or code doi
050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER
Classification number GA102.4.R44
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Classification number G70.39-70.6
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Subject category code RGW
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Subject category code TEC036000
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082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 910.285
Edition number 23
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Norris, Pat.
Relator term author.
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Watching Earth from Space
Medium [electronic resource] :
Remainder of title How Surveillance Helps Us -- and Harms Us /
Statement of responsibility, etc by Pat Norris.
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Edition statement 1.
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-- New York, NY :
-- Praxis :
-- Imprint: Praxis,
-- 2010.
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Extent XX, 284 p.
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490 1# - SERIES STATEMENT
Series statement Springer Praxis Books
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note 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.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc - 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. But as well as all the essential monitoring performed by satellites - such as mapping natural or man-made disasters, agricultural performances, weather, and climate change to name a few - there is a growing swell of public opinion that they are being used by governments to erode personal privacy and freedom. This book looks at the possible conflict between public good and market forces, and the future development of new systems to deal with new needs.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Geography.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Remote sensing.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Life sciences.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Astronautics.
650 14 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Earth Sciences.
650 24 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry.
650 24 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Popular Science in Nature and Environment.
650 24 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Measurement Science and Instrumentation.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Aerospace Technology and Astronautics.
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Title Springer eBooks
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Display text Printed edition:
International Standard Book Number 9781441969378
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Uniform title Springer Praxis Books
856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS
Uniform Resource Identifier http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6938-5
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