Commercial satellite imagery comes of age

• Main Authors: FLORINI, Ann, DEHQANZADA, Yahya
• 格式: text
• 語言: English
• 出版: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 1999
• 主題: Artificial satellites; Satellite imaging; Landsat; Remote sensing; State espionage; Spacecraft launching; Business structures; Government; Shutters; Corporations; Political Science; Public Affairs, Public Policy and Public Administration
• 在線閱讀: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/2093; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/3350/viewcontent/Commercial_Satellite_Imagery_Comes_of_Age_1999.pdf
• 機構: Singapore Management University

Since satellites started photographing Earth from space nearly four decades ago, their images have inspired excitement, introspection, and, often, fear. Like all information, satellite imagery is in itself neutral. But satellite imagery is a particularly powerful sort of information, revealing both...