Implications for Water Management, Marine Resources and Maritime Transport
This book examines the contributions that space technologies can make in tackling
some of the serious problems posed by climate change. Focusing on examples of water
management, marine resources and maritime transport, it sets out the rationale for
further developing satellite systems to measure and monitor climate change and help
mitigate its consequences. The report underlines the need to consider satellites not
just as research and development systems, but as an important component of a critical
communication- and information-based infrastructure for modern societies. The tool
box for decision makers that concludes the book reviews different methodological options
for deciding on investments in space-based earth observation.