Program Earth

Program Earth
Author: Jennifer Gabrys
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 445
Release: 2016-04-13
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1452950172

Sensors are everywhere. Small, flexible, economical, and computationally powerful, they operate ubiquitously in environments. They compile massive amounts of data, including information about air, water, and climate. Never before has such a volume of environmental data been so broadly collected or so widely available. Grappling with the consequences of wiring our world, Program Earth examines how sensor technologies are programming our environments. As Jennifer Gabrys points out, sensors do not merely record information about an environment. Rather, they generate new environments and environmental relations. At the same time, they give a voice to the entities they monitor: to animals, plants, people, and inanimate objects. This book looks at the ways in which sensors converge with environments to map ecological processes, to track the migration of animals, to check pollutants, to facilitate citizen participation, and to program infrastructure. Through discussing particular instances where sensors are deployed for environmental study and citizen engagement across three areas of environmental sensing, from wild sensing to pollution sensing and urban sensing, Program Earth asks how sensor technologies specifically contribute to new environmental conditions. What are the implications for wiring up environments? How do sensor applications not only program environments, but also program the sorts of citizens and collectives we might become? Program Earth suggests that the sensor-based monitoring of Earth offers the prospect of making new environments not simply as an extension of the human but rather as new “technogeographies” that connect technology, nature, and people.

Earth System Science Overview

Earth System Science Overview
Author: NASA Advisory Council. Earth System Sciences Committee
Publisher:
Total Pages: 56
Release: 1986
Genre: Astronautics in earth sciences
ISBN:

Earth System Analysis for Sustainability

Earth System Analysis for Sustainability
Author: Hans-Joachim Schellnhuber
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 484
Release: 2004
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780262195133

This book presents the complete story of the inseparably intertwined evolution of life and matter on earth, focussing on four major topics. It analyzes the driving forces behind global change and uses this knowledge to propose principles for global stewardship.

Beyond Earth

Beyond Earth
Author: Asif A. Siddiqi
Publisher: National Aeronautis & Space Administration
Total Pages: 396
Release: 2018
Genre: Planets
ISBN:

This is a completely updated and revised version of a monograph published in 2002 by the NASA History Office under the original title Deep Space Chronicle: A Chronology of Deep Space and Planetary Probes, 1958-2000. This new edition not only adds all events in robotic deep space exploration after 2000 and up to the end of 2016, but it also completely corrects and updates all accounts of missions from 1958 to 2000--Provided by publisher.

Life as a Geological Force

Life as a Geological Force
Author: Pieter Westbroek
Publisher: W W Norton & Company Incorporated
Total Pages: 240
Release: 1992
Genre: Gaia hypothesis
ISBN: 9780393308174

Those who funded the sciences of geology 150 years ago intuitively saw the Earth as a unified whole. Since that time, the sciences have specialized into physics, chemistry, biology and geology - specialization that has brought advances, but has unfortunately obscured our view of the unique role that life and death play on our planet.

Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations for 2016: Indian Health Service budget oversight hearing; Department of the Interior budget oversight hearing; Environmental Protection Agency budget oversight hearing; Bureau of Indian Affairs

Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations for 2016: Indian Health Service budget oversight hearing; Department of the Interior budget oversight hearing; Environmental Protection Agency budget oversight hearing; Bureau of Indian Affairs
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1170
Release: 2015
Genre: United States
ISBN:

1974 NASA Authorization

1974 NASA Authorization
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Astronautics
Publisher:
Total Pages: 300
Release: 1973
Genre:
ISBN: