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GLOSSARY

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. FOREWORD BY HERBERT FRIEDMAN vii
  3. CONTENTS ix
  4. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xi
  5. 1 PLANET EARTH AND GLOBAL CHANGE 1
  6. 2 HOW REMOTE SENSING WORKS 11
  7. 3 THE PRESENT CONSTELLATION OF SPACE-BASED SYSTEMS 47
  8. 4 FILLING THE GAPS IN THE 1990s 87
  9. 5 MISSION TO PLANET EARTH 115
  10. 6 PREPARING FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY 141
  11. REFERENCES 161
  12. GLOSSARY 173
  13. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 179
  14. INDEX 183
Planet Earth
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https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674188044.c10

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. FOREWORD BY HERBERT FRIEDMAN vii
  3. CONTENTS ix
  4. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xi
  5. 1 PLANET EARTH AND GLOBAL CHANGE 1
  6. 2 HOW REMOTE SENSING WORKS 11
  7. 3 THE PRESENT CONSTELLATION OF SPACE-BASED SYSTEMS 47
  8. 4 FILLING THE GAPS IN THE 1990s 87
  9. 5 MISSION TO PLANET EARTH 115
  10. 6 PREPARING FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY 141
  11. REFERENCES 161
  12. GLOSSARY 173
  13. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 179
  14. INDEX 183
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