Abstract
The combined forces of science and technology have been perfecting a new means of data acquisition which has gone largely unnoticed by the average citizen—a technique so profound in its implications for the improvement of the environment and for the allocation and conservation of natural and human resources that it has been compared to the microscope in its significance and achievement. This new technique is the viewing of the earth’s surface and its surrounding environment by means of sensing devices affixed to a platform orbiting the earth from the near reaches of outer space. Remote sensing by satellite (RSS) has been defined by the UN Working Group on Remote Sensing as a methodology to assist in characterizing the nature and conditions of the natural resources, the natural features and phenomena, and the environment of the earth by means of observation and measurements from space platforms.
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