Foreword / Tanja Masson-Zwaan -- Introduction / Ray Purdy and Denise Leung -- Technical introduction to satellite EO / Shaida Johnston -- Science, policy and evidence in EO / Ray Harris -- The use of satellite imagery in environmental crimes prosecutions in the United States : a developing area / Kris Dighe [and others] -- The use of EO data as evidence in the courts of Singapore / Géradine Goh Escolar -- Ten years of using earth observation data in support of Queensland's vegetation management framework / Bruce Goulevitch -- EO in the European Union : legal considerations / Saʼid Moteshar -- Satellite data as evidence in the courts of Taiwan / Dennis Tsai -- Satellite evidence in international institutions / Maureen Williams -- The use of EO technologies in court by the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court / Eya David Macauley -- Outer space law principles and privacy / Frans G. von der Dunk -- Privacy and EO : an overview of legal issues / George Cho -- The impact of copyright protection and public sector information regulations on the availability of remote sensing data / Catherine Doldirina -- The use of remote sensing evidence at trial in the United States : one state court judge's observations / Merideth Wright -- Satellite images as evidence for environmental crime in Europe : a judge's perspective / Carole M. Billiet -- Authentication of images / Alan Shipman -- Introducing digital signatures and time-stamps in the EO data processing chain / Willibald Croi, Fréderic-Michael Foeteler and Harold Linke -- Pulling the threads together and moving forward / Ray Purdy
Summary
Evidence from Earth Observation Satellites is an edited collection analysing emerging legal issues surrounding the use of satellite data as evidence. It considers whether data from satellite technologies can be a legally reliable, effective evidential tool in contemporary legal systems
