No more secrets?: Policy implications of commercial remote sensing satellites

• Main Authors: FLORINI, Ann, DEHQANZADA, Yahya A.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 1999
• Subjects: Political Science; Public Affairs, Public Policy and Public Administration
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/2316; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/3573/viewcontent/NoMoreSecrets_1999_wp.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Ever since the earliest satellites and astronauts started taking pictures of the Earth from space nearly four decades ago, those images have inspired excitement, introspection, and, often, fear. Like all information, satellite imagery is in itself neutral. But satellite imagery is a particularly pow...