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Title:
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Open space : the global effort for open access to environmental satellite data /
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Authors:
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Mariel Borowitz, Author
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Material Type:
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book
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Publisher:
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Cambridge, MA : The MIT Press, 2017
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Series:
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Information policy series
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ISBN / ISSN / EAN :
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978-0-262-03718-1
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Size:
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xiii, 410 p. / 24 cm
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Bibliography note:
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Languages:
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English
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Class number:
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QC981
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Subjects:
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Astronautics in earth sciences
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Climatic changes--Remote sensing
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Communication policy
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Environmental monitoring--Remote sensing
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Information resources management
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Description:
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Key to understanding and addressing climate change is continuous and precise monitoring of environmental conditions. Satellites play an important role in collecting climate data, offering comprehensive global coverage that can't be matched by in situ observation. And yet, as Mariel Borowitz shows in this book, much satellite data is not freely available but restricted; this remains true despite the data-sharing advocacy of international organizations and a global open data movement. Borowitz examines policies governing the sharing of environmental satellite data, offering a model of data-sharing policy development and applying it in case studies from the United States, Europe, and Japan - countries responsible for nearly half of the unclassified government Earth observation satellites.
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