Commerce in Space: Infrastructures, Technologies, and Applications

Commerce in Space: Infrastructures, Technologies, and Applications

Phillip Olla
Release Date: July, 2007|Copyright: © 2008 |Pages: 402
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-624-2
ISBN13: 9781599046242|ISBN10: 1599046245|EISBN13: 9781599046266
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Description:

Over the next decade, significant technological advancements and policy implementations are planned to each of the five space infrastructures, (telecommunication, positioning and navigation, broadcasting, earth observation, and tourism) creating new opportunities for information technology.

Commerce in Space: Infrastructures, Technologies and Applications compiles an authoritative body of research on the expanding role of earth observation satellite initiatives and their application to such capabilities as mobile broadband, Internet, and mobile communication connectivity. A must-have reference work for any library, this book provides a comprehensive review of how space technology can influence the future of information technology architecture across multiple domains such as health, education, logistics, business decision making, and communication.

Coverage:

The many academic areas covered in this publication include, but are not limited to:

  • Challenges in Knowledge Management
  • Commerce in Space
  • Commercialization of Space Technology
  • Cospas-Sarsat Satellite System for Search and Rescue
  • Digital Bridges
  • Disaster Monitoring, Mitigation and Damage Assessment
  • Effective Water Management
  • Era of Nanosatellites
  • Ethical Approach to Commercial Space Activities
  • European Space Policy
  • Extraterrestrial Space Regimes
  • Global Navigation Satellite Systems and Services
  • Multilateral Environmental Agreements
  • Natural Resource Management
  • Satellite Earth Observation
  • Satellite Internet
  • Space Development and the Visual Arts
  • Space Elevator
  • Space Tourism
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This book will explore some new opportunities and highlight the impact that the data from space infrastructure is having on our society.

– Yutaka Kurihara, Aichi University, Japan

Authors from 15 countries contribute a diverse number of well-chosen and edited chapters that give an amazingly complete picture of the current situation and future problems related to the world's commercial space technological infrastructure. A timely book, invaluable to anyone who works in these fields. Highly recommended.

– CHOICE, Vol. 45, No. 05 (2008)

A must-have reference work for any library, this book provides a comprehensive review of how space technology can influence the future of information technology architecture.

– Educational Book Review (June-July 2008)
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Phillip Olla is the endowed Phillips Chair of Management and Professor of MIS at the school of business at Madonna University in Michigan (USA), and he is also a Visiting Research Fellow at Brunel University (London, UK). His research interests include knowledge management, mobile telecommunication, and health informatics. In addition to University level teaching, Dr. Phillip Olla is also a Chartered Engineer and has over 10 years experience as an independent Consultant and has worked in the telecommunications, space, financial and healthcare sectors. He was contracted to perform a variety of roles including Chief Technical Architect, Program Manager, and Director. Dr. Olla is the Associate Editor for the Journal of Information Technology Research and the Software/Book Review Editor for the International Journal of Healthcare Information Systems and Informatics, and is also a member of the Editorial Advisory & Review Board for the Journal of Knowledge Management Practice.Dr. Phillip Olla has a PhD in mobile telecommunications from Brunel University (UK), he is an accredited Press member of the British Association of Journalism, Chartered IT Professional with the British Computing Society and a member of the IEEE society.
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