SATELLITE REMOTE SENSING AT THE SERVICE OF ENVIRONMENT
Preserving the environment is an important aspect of our modern society.
There is no future without environmental preservation, but we cannot protect the environment if we don't know it.
The advanced technology of Satellite Remote Sensing is one of the solutions to the problem of protecting the environment. Satellites use advanced technologies of Communication, Navigation and Measurement, to provide information essential to reduce and possibly prevent environmental risks.
The Earth observations, from satellites, cover many aspects related to the environmental protection, such as:
agricultural production
identification and management of natural resources, such as the water
biodiversity
urbanization
climate change
Remote Sensing is mostly made by satellites in polar orbits, rather than satellites in geostationary orbits which are used, instead, for Telecommunications.