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.

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.

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...