Remote sensing for resources development and environmental management: Remote sensing for resources development and environmental management

damen, m. c. j.

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Title:: Remote sensing for resources development and environmental management

Sub title:: proceedings of the 7th international Symposium, Enschede, 25 - 29 August 1986

Year of publication:: 1986

Place of publication:: Rotterdam; Boston

Publisher of the original:: A. A. Balkema

Identifier (digital):: 856342815

Language:: English

Additional Notes:: Volume 1-3 erschienen von 1986-1988

Editor:: Damen, M. C. J.

Document type:: Multivolume work

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Persistent identifier:: 856662364

Title:: Remote sensing for resources development and environmental management

Sub title:: proceedings of the 7th international Symposium, Enschede, 25 - 29 August 1986

Scope:: VI, Seiten 959-1074

Year of publication:: 2016

Place of publication:: Rotterdam; Boston

Publisher of the original:: A. A. Balkema

Identifier (digital):: 856662364

Signature of the source:: ZS 312(26,7,3)

Language:: English

Usage licence:: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Editor:: Damen, M. C. J.

Publisher of the digital copy:: Technische Informationsbibliothek Hannover

Place of publication of the digital copy:: Hannover

Year of publication of the original:: 2016

Document type:: Volume

Collection:: Earth sciences

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Title:: Keynote addresses

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Title:: Remote sensing applications: An outlook for the future. Herman Th. Verstappen

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979 d time-criti- :ext of flood come increas- problems have or satellite- the Seasat 1 B (1981 and xpected, such the Japanese dian Radarsat ler erratic— can compete 3wave systems ddle and far , though very lways been a om satellites plications in particularly mapping mis- g all usable ii has already rather than expected for atellite sys- from the con- opic imagery laser-altime- ch that defor gravitational ion about the obtained. The ce this is a lopments are ce is in its d, particular id photogram- in inter several types re spacecraft launched for are, in fact, emphasis put he study of science ap- or photogram- space research, resulting in a centralized admini stration. This seems hardly feasible to me: many countries want to develop their own satellites and administrative structures, fully participating in the high technology of the future and enhancing their national prestige. Personally, I feel that such competition is very desirable because only this way will challenges be mutually presented that will yield optimum results. Good international co operation will, of course, be required to avoid major inefficiencies and undue duplications. The best solution may prove to be joint efforts of groups of countries. This could to be a very inportant aspect of space technology: bringing the nations together because there is a job at hand that cannot be done by any country individually. This job, I think, is to study, map and monitor the globe with the aim of safeguarding our threatened environ ment, "mother earth", for the generations to come and to give them the quality of life required for economic social and spiritual development. We should not pursue technology for its own sake but put it to use for the study of the "ordinary business of life", a term I quote from a recent issue of the UNU periodical "Work in Progress". Only this way will the costly efforts of space research in the long run be justified! May this symposium contribute to this aim. I wish you all a good journey home and success in your work. I hope to see you again in Kyoto, 1988! ing, disaster Hites having iched in the Llite techno- rery high. In on or Space, , an annual expected a- liture by the 1 (approxima lis the con- of countries etc., astro- Lgures assume ling decades, y less funds the lead in

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