Watching earth from space: how surveillance helps us - and harms us
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Autor: Norris, Pat
Jahr: 2010
Contents
Author s preface.............................................ix
List of figures...............................................xi
List of tables................... ............................xv
List of abbreviations.........................................xvii
1 The threat of satellite images.................................... 1
Satellite images hit the headlines............................. 1
What can a satellite see from space?.......................... 2
The makings of a satellite.................................. 7
Mumbai attacks, November 2008........................... 12
Vice President Cheney s house, Iraq and the domestic use of
spy satellites........................................... 15
Privacy............................................... 17
Counter-measures....................................... 21
2 Weather satellites............................................23
Forecasting the weather.................................. 23
Ground facilities........................................ 43
Hurricanes, typhoons and tornadoes........................ 44
3 Climate change..............................................45
How humans change the earth............................. 45
Sea level.............................................. 47
Global warming........................................ 50
Ice ................................................. 53
Other changes......................................... 65
The sun.............................................. 66
The asteroids.......................................... 69
4 Commercial surveillance: mapping on a large scale....................73
Introduction: from Landsat to GeoEye....................... 73
vi Contents
3D maps............................................. 80
Farming, forestry and land use............................. 85
Other types of infringement............................... 99
Mineral exploration.................................... 102
Construction......................................... 106
Recent new forms of satellite imaging....................... 106
5 Society and survival.......................................... Ill
Natural disasters...................................... Ill
Water............................................... 124
6 Where am I? Where are they?.................................. 131
The surveillance society................................. 131
Why we need satnav.................................... 132
How satnav works..................................... 133
Various kinds of satnav................................. 135
Accuracy............................................ 140
In-car navigation...................................... 141
Privacy and satnav..................................... 142
GPS is watching you................................... 143
7 Monitoring nuclear weapons.................................... 145
The Cold War: CORONA and Zenit-2...................... 145
The nuclear non-proliferation treaty........................ 149
Facilities to produce nuclear materials...................... 151
Production of uranium............................... 151
Enrichment of uranium.............................. 152
Plutonium production and extraction.................... 152
Types of nuclear fission weapons.......................... 154
Gun-type uranium weapons........................... 154
Plutonium and uranium implosion bombs................ 156
Policing the Non-Proliferation Treaty: the IAEA.............. 157
Countries in which the IAEA has been particularly active....... 159
India............................................ 159
Pakistan.......................................... 160
Libya............................................ 161
Iran............................................. 161
Syria............................................. 162
Israel............................................ 163
Taiwan........................................... 164
South Africa....................................... 165
Brazil and Argentina................................ 165
Algeria........................................... 166
Egypt............................................ 166
The IAEA and Iraq.................................... 167
Contents vii
The IAEA is drawn into the Gulf War of 1991............. 167
The Iraq War of 1991 and its aftermath.................. 168
Resolution 687 creates UNSCOM and the IAEA Action
Team............................................ 169
US Government imagery support to UNSCOM and the
IAEA............................................ 172
Destruction of facilities in Iraq......................... 175
Using imagery in the field............................. 177
Olive Branch imagery................................ 178
UNSCOM Aerial Image Team......................... 179
UNSCOM becomes UNMOVIC....................... 179
Imagery in support of verification in North Korea............. 180
Imagery and nuclear verification........................... 182
Managing large imagery files.......................... 182
Thermal and multi-spectral imaging..................... 182
The future of imagery in verification.................... 185
8 Military imaging satellites: long-range intelligence................... 189
Introduction.......................................... 189
Tactical surveillance.................................... 190
Keyhole: US optical reconnaissance satellites................. 192
Commercial imaging satellites............................. 197
Russian imaging satellites................................ 201
Other countries........................................ 205
China............................................ 205
France and continental Europe......................... 206
Great Britain...................................... 208
Israel............................................ 210
India............................................ 211
Japan............................................ 211
Radar imaging........................................ 214
Missile early warning................................... 218
Getting the images back quickly........................... 228
Unmanned aircraft..................................... 230
9 Military radio surveillance from space............................ 233
Introduction.......................................... 233
Satellites being listened to - and listening.................... 234
Military............................................. 240
Monitoring the oceans.................................. 243
Spying on the spies..................................... 244
Money no object...................................... 246
The Soviets/Russians: ocean surveillance.................... 248
The Soviets/Russians: eavesdropping....................... 252
Other countries........................................ 257
viii Contents
France........................................... 257
China............................................ 259
UK.............................................. 259
10 The future.................................................261
References.................................................263
Index....................................................277
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