Abstract
In the late nineties, the orbiting espionage sentries, defense satellites, and older weather satellites will be joined by orbiting environmental and weather watchdogs. Additionally, more and more specially equipped aircraft and ground vehicles will be used to sense pollution and weather phenomena. These instruments will have the ability to monitor what cities, countries, or even factories are doing to the Earth.
“Now there is one outstanding important fact regarding spaceship earth, and this is that no instruction book came with it.”
R. Buckminster Fuller
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Miller, J.L. (1994). Weather and Environmental Monitoring Sensors. In: Principles of Infrared Technology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-7664-8_12
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