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Secure World Foundation Forum
 Ray A. Williamson, PhD,
is editor of Imaging Notes and
Executive Director of the Secure World Foundation, an organization
devoted to the promotion of cooperative approaches to space security (SecureWorldFoundation.org).
Summer 2010 (Volume 25, Number 3)
CRS Potential for Disaster Response
Recently, I was asked to share my vision for the future of remote sensing and the response to natural disasters. Where could we be in 10 years? Where should we be? Are we even making effective use of what is available today? These questions are . . . read on
Spring 2010 (Volume 25, Number 2)
A Close Look At Climate Change Policy
There is debate growing – a re-visitation, if you will – of “open skies,” but this time centered on the transparency of monitoring Earth’s complex and dynamic environment. Over ... read on
Winter 2010 (Volume 25, Number 1)
And Space Systems
Ray A. Williamson, PhD, is editor of Imaging Notes and Executive Director of the Secure World Foundation, an organization devoted to the promotion of cooperative approaches to ... read on
Fall 2009 (Volume 24, Number 4)
IGARSS 2010 Theme
For nearly the first three decades of satellite remote sensing, the utility of the data was limited by the expert knowledge of complex software required to make full use of the ... read on
Summer 2009 (Volume 24, Number 3)
This June, I spent nearly two weeks at the meeting of the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS), which meets in Vienna, Austria annually . . . read on
Spring 2009 (Volume 24, Number 2)
In the past, imaging satellite operators have generally not needed to worry much about the risk their satellites might face from collisions with other satellites or with orbital ... read on
Winter 2009 (Volume 24, Number 1)
A New Partnership for Human Security
In 2007, a few years after I became editor of Imaging Notes, I took on the exciting and daunting task of leading the Secure World Foundation (SWF), a Colorado-based operating ... read on
Fall 2008 (Volume 23, Number 3)
The Game Continues to Change... and Ever More Quickly
By Ray Williamson, PhD, editor
Over the past few years, the pace of change in the satellite remote sensing marketplace, ... read on
Summer 2008 (Volume 23, Number 2)
Some Important Needs Remain
Images from satellites and the software used to analyze them have added an important set of tools to responders' ability to provide help and succor to victims of natural ... read on
Spring 2008 (Volume 23, Number 1)
Minding the (Space) Environment
Most remote sensing satellites are devoted in some way to monitoring and managing Earth’s environment. Indeed, the broad, synoptic view of moderate resolution, multispectral ... read on
Fall 2007 (Volume 22, Number 3)
An Emerging Earth Observations Giant
As is true for many readers of this magazine, my work occasionally takes me to interesting places in the world. This year, as an external faculty member of the International Space ... read on
Summer 2007 (Volume 22, Number 2)
After more than three decades of promising advances in satellite remote sensing that never quite gained market traction outside of defense applications, remote sensing has started ... read on
Spring 2007 (Volume 22, Number 1)
The Newest Weather and Climate Tool
On October 19, 2006, MetOp-A, Europe's first polar-orbiting, operational environmental satellite, was launched aboard a Russian Soyuz launch vehicle from Kazakhstan's Baikonur ... read on
Fall 2006 (Volume 21, Number 3)
NASA: No Longer Understanding and Protecting Our Home Planet?
In Shakespeare’s well-known play Romeo and Juliet, Juliet asks, “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other word would smell as sweet.” Today, one might ask much ... read on
Winter 2006 (Volume 21, Number 1)
Several years ago, remote sensing experts wondered aloud whether or not the commercial satellite remote sensing industry would survive. Starting in 1999, first Space Imaging, then ... read on
Summer 2005 (Volume 20, Number 2)
Smallsats as New Drivers in
After several years of unrealizedpromise, false starts and uncertainties, microsats and smallsats centered on remote sensing applications have become the focus of developing ... read on
Fall 2005 (Volume 20, Number 3)
Reflecting and Projecting
Every so often a reporter calls to ask for my views on the Landsat program or its follow-on, the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM). First, I usually issue a long sigh — not ... read on
Winter 2005 (Volume 20, Number 1)
Recently I took part in an international conference in Beijing on remote sensing in archaeological research and heritage preservation. Supported by several Chinese research ... read on
Fall 2004 (Volume 19, Number 4)
The Stuff of Life and the Focus of Future Political and Social Tensions
Water—essential to life and to national economies; clean, fresh water is becoming increasingly difficult to obtain, especially in arid and semi-arid climates. In the near future, ... read on
Winter 2004 (Volume 19, Number 1)
A Geospatial Approach
Shortly after the September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, geospatial experts went to work assisting in the response and recovery efforts. Their ... read on
Spring 2004 (Volume 19, Number 2)
Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES)
Over the past three decades, Europe has developed a series of Earth observations satellites. Most of them have been developed by the European Space Agency (ESA) in close ... read on
Summer 2004 (Volume 19, Number 3)
Shortly after the September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, geospatial experts went to work assisting in the response and recovery efforts. Their ... read on
Summer 2006 (Volume 21, Number 2)
The Times They Are A-Changin’
In case you had not noticed, the world of remote sensing information delivery is changing rapidly. Once largely the province of experts trained in the arcane skills of processing ... read on
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