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Observing Earths Environment from Space: Opportunities and Challenges

机译:从太空观察地球环境:机遇与挑战

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Progresses in space technology in recent decades have left indelible impacts on human life. For example, communication by cell phone would not be possible without sophisticated Earth-orbiting satellites and the vehicles that launch them into space. Another remarkable achievement of the satellite systems is the initiation of global monitoring of Earth’s environment such as atmospheric temperature and ocean currents. Those satellite observations have been used to improve weather forecast and detect long-term trends of Earth’s climate. While cell phone communications are now operated by private companies on a self-sustained basis, the Earth observing system faces a more uncertain future. The subtle difference between the two stems from the fact that the latter has always been supported and run by major government laboratories. Its continued development will be affected by government funding for space research, which has seen strong ebbs and tides in recent years. Combined with another trend of privatization of space, they hint at an emerging new era for space-based monitoring of the global environment. We shall examine the background of this development and explore the opportunities and challenges that arise from it.
机译:近几十年来,太空技术的进步对人类生活产生了不可磨灭的影响。例如,没有先进的地球轨道卫星和将其发射到太空中的运载工具,将无法通过手机进行通信。卫星系统的另一个显著成就是启动了对地球环境(如大气温度和洋流)的全球监视。这些卫星观测已被用于改善天气预报和探测地球气候的长期趋势。现在,移动电话通信是由私营公司自给自足地运营的,而地球观测系统则面临着更加不确定的未来。两者之间的微妙差异源于这样一个事实,即后者一直得到主要政府实验室的支持和管理。它的持续发展将受到政府用于太空研究的资助的影响,近年来,这种研究起伏不定。结合空间私有化的另一趋势,它们暗示了对全球环境进行天基监测的新兴新时代。我们将研究这种发展的背景,并探索由此产生的机遇和挑战。

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