Eyes in the Skies

Presenter: Various Presenters

Published: March 2009

Age: 14-19 and upwards

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Type: Discussions

Source/institution: Vega

We are being watched. A bewildering array of sensors are remotely observing everything on earth, from crops in Africa to the car parked outside your house. Will these aerial observations help us to save the Earth, or is science beginning to see too far into our lives? How has satellite imaging improved in the last fifty years, and what are the implications for privacy, earth observation and geosciences?