Evidence from Earth Observation Satellites is an edited collection analysing emerging legal issues surrounding the use of satellite data as evidence. It considers whether data from satellite technologies can be a legally reliable, effective evidential tool in contemporary legal systems.

The result of a workshop bringing together an international advisory board of experts in science, satellite technologies, industry innovations, and public policy, this book addresses the current and future roles of satellite Earth observations in solving large-scale environmental problems. The book showcases the results of engaging distinct communities to enhance our ability to identify emerging problems and to administer international regimes created to solve them. It also reviews the work of the Policy and Earth Observation Innovation Cycle (PEOIC) project, an effort aimed at assessing the impact of satellite observations on environmental policy and to propose a mission going forward that would launch an “innovation cycle”. The achievements of such a mission would feed back to innovations in next-generation observation technology, thus contributing to global policy demand for policy-relevant information. This book is open access under a CC BY license.

The book focuses on the topic of trends and challenges with regards to satellite-based earth observation. Contributors include legal experts in the field and representatives from institutions such as the European Space Agency, the European Space Policy Institute, academia and the private sector.

Global change involves complex and far-reaching variations in the Earth’s systems, and satellite observations have been widely used in global change studies. Over the past five decades, Earth observation has developed into a comprehensive system that can conduct dynamic monitoring of the land, the oceans and the atmosphere at the local, regional and even global scale. At the same time, although a large number of Earth observation satellites have been launched, very few of them are used in global change studies. The lack of scientific satellite programs greatly hinders research on global change. This book proposes using a series of global change scientific satellites to establish a scientific observation grid for global environmental change monitoring from space, and offers the first comprehensive review of lunar-based Earth observation. These scientific satellites could provide not only basic datasets but also scientific support in facilitating advances in international global change research.

Satellite Earth observation (EO) data have already exceeded the petabyte scale and are increasingly freely and openly available from different data providers. This poses a number of issues in terms of volume (e.g., data volumes have increased 10× in the last 5 years); velocity (e.g., Sentinel-2 is capturing a new image of any given place every 5 days); and variety (e.g., different types of sensors, spatial/spectral resolutions). Traditional approaches to the acquisition, management, distribution, and analysis of EO data have limitations (e.g., data size, heterogeneity, and complexity) that impede their true information potential to be realized. Addressing these big data challenges requires a change of paradigm and a move away from local processing and data distribution methods to lower the barriers caused by data size and related complications in data management. To tackle these issues, EO data cubes (EODC) are a new paradigm revolutionizing the way users can store, organize, manage, and analyze EO data. This Special Issue is consequently aiming to cover the most recent advances in EODC developments and implementations to broaden the use of EO data to larger communities of users, support decision-makers with timely and actionable information converted into meaningful geophysical variables, and ultimately unlock the information power of EO data.

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 87. Chapters: Earth observation satellite, List of satellites which have provided data on Earth's magnetosphere, Envisat, Radarsat-1, Terra, Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite, QuikSCAT, Gravity Field and Steady-State Ocean Circulation Explorer, Jason-1, Orbiting Carbon Observatory, TerraSAR-X, ADEOS II, Moderate-Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment, TOPEX/Poseidon, Resurs DK, Ikonos, MetOp, Automatic Picture Transmission, List of climate research satellites, Landsat 7, Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit, Indian Remote Sensing, Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity satellite, RazakSAT, Intercosmos 24, Meteosat, RapidEye, Radarsat-2, Atmospheric Infrared Sounder, C/NOFS, Space Technology 5, ICESat, SPOT, Greenhouse Gases Observing Satellite, Student Nitric Oxide Explorer, Disaster Monitoring Constellation, Geosat, Pleiades satellites, Constellation Observing System for Meteorology, Ionosphere, and Climate, Deep Space Climate Observatory, Soil Moisture Active and Passive mission, RISAT-2, Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere, Landsat 5, STSAT-2A, TIMED, Megha-Tropiques, Badr-B, Low Rate Picture Transmission, QuickBird, List of Earth observation satellites, SAR-Lupe, Arirang-2, COSMO-SkyMed, Earth Observing-1, Aqua, Mission Science Division, Multi-Functional Transport Satellite, Cartosat-2, Technology Experiment Satellite, Cartosat-2A, MERIS, European Remote-Sensing Satellite, Aura, CloudSat, Landsat 4, Argos System, Satelite de Coleta de Dados, Satellite formation flying, Kalpana-1, Persona, NPOESS, SEASAT, Landsat 1, Advanced Land Observation Satellite, QuakeSat, CALIPSO, ADM-Aeolus, A-train, Earth Observing System, TanDEM-X, Viking, Cartosat-1, Cartosat-2B, Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer, Ofek-9, Coriolis, SeaWiFS, Earth Observing-3, AEROS, Lapan-TUBsat, Monitor-E, SCIAMACHY, Humidity...

The following listing represents a survey and a short description of 'Earth Observing Mis sions' in alphabetical order. The listing in Part A considers completed-, operational-as well as planned missions on an international scale (Earth observations from space know no na tional boundaries). A look into past activities is important for reasons of heritage, context and of perspective. The document is intended for all who want to keep track of missions and sensors in the fast -growing field of Earth observations. There cannot be any claim to com pleteness, although a considerable effort was made to collect and integrate all known mis sions and sensors into this book. Earth observation by remote sensing changes our view and perception of the world. We be gin to realize the global character of remote sensing, its multidimensional and complemen tary nature, its vast potential to many disciplines, its importance to mankind as a whole. Re mote sensing permits for the first time in history a total system view of the Earth. The view from space toward Earth has brought about sweeping revisions in the Earth sciences, in par ticular in such fields as meteorology, oceanology, hydrology, geology, geography, forestry, agriculture, geodynamics, solar-terrestrial interactions, and many others.

Over the past decades, rapid developments in digital and sensing technologies, such as the Cloud, Web and Internet of Things, have dramatically changed the way we live and work. The digital transformation is revolutionizing our ability to monitor our planet and transforming the way we access, process and exploit Earth Observation data from satellites.This book reviews these megatrends and their implications for the Earth Observation community as well as the wider data economy. It provides insight into new paradigms of Open Science and Innovation applied to space data, which are characterized by openness, access to large volume of complex data, wide availability of new community tools, new techniques for big data analytics such as Artificial Intelligence, unprecedented level of computing power, and new types of collaboration among researchers, innovators, entrepreneurs and citizen scientists. In addition, this book aims to provide readers with some reflections on the future of Earth Observation, highlighting through a series of use cases not just the new opportunities created by the New Space revolution, but also the new challenges that must be addressed in order to make the most of the large volume of complex and diverse data delivered by the new generation of satellites. This work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use. All rights not granted by the work's license are retained by the author or authors.