scope:

Commercial Observation Satellites brings together an international group of experts to analyze the diverse issues presented by the new, higher resolution commercial and civilian observation satellites. With more than two dozen chapters and numerous satellite images, the book's authors examine emerging policy issues, provide a survey of the U.S. and many non-U.S. satellite remote sensing programs, and offer case studies on international security applications of satellite imagery. Written to reach nonspecialists, as well as policymakers and commercial practitioners, the book is divided into four parts:

• Policymaking Context

• National Remote Sensing Programs and Policies

• Remote Sensing Applications to International Problems

•Emerging International Policy Issues

The book also contains a Foreword by Marta Macias Brown, wife of former Congressman George E. Brown, Jr.

Thirty-two pages of color images, charts available on the ASPRS website at http://www.asprs. org/asprs/news/satellites/ will be updated regularly.