Planet Earth : : The View from Space / / D. James Baker.
Intense heat and drought in the summer of 1988.greenhouse warming.acid rain.the ozone hole.rain forest destruction.Hurricane Hugo: "The Endangered Earth" is making headlines around the world, and we are aware as never before of the fragility of the global environment and our own vulnerabil...
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Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013] ©1990 |
Year of Publication: | 2013 |
Edition: | Reprint 2014 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Frontiers of Space ;
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (191 p.) :; 4 color illustrations, 22 halftones, 22 line illustrations, 1 table |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- FOREWORD BY HERBERT FRIEDMAN
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- 1 PLANET EARTH AND GLOBAL CHANGE
- 2 HOW REMOTE SENSING WORKS
- 3 THE PRESENT CONSTELLATION OF SPACE-BASED SYSTEMS
- 4 FILLING THE GAPS IN THE 1990s
- 5 MISSION TO PLANET EARTH
- 6 PREPARING FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
- REFERENCES
- GLOSSARY
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- INDEX