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U.S. and Russian scientists worked in collaboration in using the Space Shuttle and the Mir Space Station as platforms for acquiring remote sensing data of the Earth. This experiment provided fascinating photographs of our planet and insights into dynamic earth processes. The observations show the dramatic effects of global environmental change including the fluctuating water levels of the Caspean Sea that threaten population centres and important oil resources, the flooding of the Nile, drought in the Southeaster U.S. and Mexico, and the events related to El Ninio. Land use was also studied, providing outstanding pictures of major cities and documenting urban growth.

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This book reports uniquely valuable remote sensing techniques that will form the basis for remote sensing studies in the future. (La Doc Sti, September 2000)

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KAMLESH P. LULLA is Chief of the Office of Earth Sciences and Chief Scientist for Astronaut Training in Earth Sciences at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. LEV V. DESSINOV is Head of the Laboratory of Remote Sensing at the Institute of Geography of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow, Russia.

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