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Earth Observation Short-History

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Observation of the Earth and Its Environment

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Prior to the space age (conventionally dated from 1957), humankind had never been able to take in the whole of a hemisphere in a single glance. In fact it had never had a global view of the world in which it lived. It was not until the first spacecraft went into orbit that our horizons expanded and we saw our planet as never before. During more than four decades of spaceflight, planet Earth has been rediscovered through the systematic collection and analysis of vast amounts of information. At the turn of the century/millennium, satellite-provided services in many fields of application (environmental monitoring, navigation, weather forecasting, communication, etc) are taken for granted. We’ve come to depend on the satellites in a way that would have been unimaginable a few decades ago.

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