Observation of the Earth and Its Environment
Subtitle: Survey of Missions and Sensors
Edition: 4th ed. edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: December 12, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 1510
ISBN-13: 9783540423881
Subjects: Aerospace & aviation technology; Applied optics; Environmental monitoring; Remote sensing; Remote Sensing Techniques; Science; Science/Mathematics; Aeronautics & Astronautics; Earth Sciences - Meteorology & Climatology; Engineering - Automotive; Earth observation; Technology / Aeronautics & Astronautics; airborne; campaign; environment; imaging; lidar; meteorology; Earth Sciences - Geography; Equipment and supplies
First sentence: Prior to the space age (conventionally dated from 1957), humankind had never been able to take in the whole of a hemisphere in a single glance.