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Category : Artificial satellites in earth sciences
Languages : en
Pages : 6
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The Earth Observer
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Artificial satellites in earth sciences
Languages : en
Pages : 6
Book Description
The Earth Observer
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Category : Artificial satellites in earth sciences
Languages : en
Pages : 312
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Earth Observations from Space
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309185661
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
Over the past 50 years, thousands of satellites have been sent into space on missions to collect data about the Earth. Today, the ability to forecast weather, climate, and natural hazards depends critically on these satellite-based observations. At the request of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the National Research Council convened a committee to examine the scientific accomplishments that have resulted from space-based observations. This book describes how the ability to view the entire globe at once, uniquely available from satellite observations, has revolutionized Earth studies and ushered in a new era of multidisciplinary Earth sciences. In particular, the ability to gather satellite images frequently enough to create "movies" of the changing planet is improving the understanding of Earth's dynamic processes and helping society to manage limited resources and environmental challenges. The book concludes that continued Earth observations from space will be required to address scientific and societal challenges of the future.
The Earthquake Observers
Author: Deborah R. CoenPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226111814
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Earthquakes have taught us much about our planet's hidden structure and the forces that have shaped it. This book explains how observing networks transformed an instant of panic and confusion into a field for scientific research, turning earthquakes into natural experiments at the nexus of the physical and human sciences.
Techniques of the Observer
Author: Jonathan CraryPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262531078
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Jonathan Crary's Techniques of the Observer provides a dramatically new perspective on the visual culture of the nineteenth century, reassessing problems of both visual modernism and social modernity. This analysis of the historical formation of the observer is a compelling account of the prehistory of the society of the spectacle. In Techniques of the Observer Jonathan Crary provides a dramatically new perspective on the visual culture of the nineteenth century, reassessing problems of both visual modernism and social modernity. Inverting conventional approaches, Crary considers the problem of visuality not through the study of art works and images, but by analyzing the historical construction of the observer. He insists that the problems of vision are inseparable from the operation of social power and examines how, beginning in the 1820s, the observer became the site of new discourses and practices that situated vision within the body as a physiological event. Alongside the sudden appearance of physiological optics, Crary points out, theories and models of "subjective vision" were developed that gave the observer a new autonomy and productivity while simultaneously allowing new forms of control and standardization of vision. Crary examines a range of diverse work in philosophy, in the empirical sciences, and in the elements of an emerging mass visual culture. He discusses at length the significance of optical apparatuses such as the stereoscope and of precinematic devices, detailing how they were the product of new physiological knowledge. He also shows how these forms of mass culture, usually labeled as "realist," were in fact based on abstract models of vision, and he suggests that mimetic or perspectival notions of vision and representation were initially abandoned in the first half of the nineteenth century within a variety of powerful institutions and discourses, well before the modernist painting of the 1870s and 1880s.
Terra Spacecraft
Author: Earth
Author: Michael J. CarlowiczPublisher: National Aeronautis & Space Administration
ISBN: 9781626830479
Category : Earth (Planet)
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
"NASA studies Earth in novel ways and with ingenious tools, examining it from beneath the crust to the edge of the atmosphere. This book provides a visual journey of our beautiful and compelling planet as viewed from above."--Provided by publisher.
Peaceful Uses of Earth-observation Spacecraft
Author: University of Michigan. Willow Run LaboratoriesPublisher:
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Category : Scientific satellites
Languages : en
Pages : 500
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Elementary Astronomy
Author: Edward Singleton HoldenPublisher:
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Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 484
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