| Abstrakt: |
The first orbital satellite photographs of Earth were taken over Mexico on August 14, 1959, by the United States Explorer 6, "a small, spheroidal satellite designed to study trapped radiation of various energies, galactic cosmic rays, geomagnetism, radio propagation in the upper atmosphere, and the flux of micrometeorites."1 In 1972, the United States started the Landsat program, "the longest continuous space-based record of Earth's land in existence."2 Despite the passage of more than half a century and efforts to make exhibits readily accessible for litigants,3 satellite data and imagery remains woefully underused in American courts. With this paper, the authors seek to encourage attorneys to consider exhibits featuring such information by, inter alia, explaining how they can effectively be used. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
