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Chapter 1 - Introduction & Overview<br />

Governments are Making Greater Use <strong>of</strong> Commercial Images, in addition to government<br />

sources, to monitor other nations. Left: Satellite images <strong>of</strong> the islands <strong>of</strong> Japan, 9<br />

May 1998. Right: Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the Middle East, 3 April 1998. [News photos<br />

©1998 OrbImage, now GeoEye as per licensing instructions.]<br />

3.c. Commercial, Agricultural, and Government Applications<br />

<strong>The</strong>re are tens <strong>of</strong> thousands <strong>of</strong> legal surveillance applications. Examples include ATM<br />

security, public safety monitoring in tunnels and transportation systems, and environmental<br />

monitoring to preserve artifacts and artworks in museums and educational institutions.<br />

Insurance adjustors, property value and damage assessors, marketing and promotional pr<strong>of</strong>essionals,<br />

contractors, city planners, investigative journalists, weather forecasters, architectural<br />

planners, livestock and food inspectors, surveyors, fishers, crop yield assessors, forestry and<br />

fire-fighting personnel all use various forms <strong>of</strong> surveillance in their work.<br />

Weather <strong>Surveillance</strong>. Left: This aerial image <strong>of</strong> Hurricane Elena over the Gulf <strong>of</strong> Mexico<br />

in September 1985 clearly shows the spiral formation and elevated cyclonic cloud berm.<br />

Right: Atlantic sea surface temperatures detected by the Advanced Microwave Scanning<br />

Radiometer (AMSR-E) aboard the Aqua satellite. <strong>The</strong> warmer temperatures promoted<br />

the cyclonic winds <strong>of</strong> hurricane Katrina as imaged by the Multi-angle Imagine Spectro-<br />

Radiometer (MISR) aboard the Terra satellite. It’s not unusual for satellite images to be<br />

generated from several different sensors and/or multiple passes <strong>of</strong> a satellite over the<br />

region <strong>of</strong> interest. [NASA/JSC news photo and NASA Goddard Scientific Visualization<br />

Studio image, released.]<br />

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