Aerial photography and multisensor imagery have produced many unexpected benefits. Systems designed originally for other purposes, for example, have found uses in fields as diverse as archaeology, meteorology, disaster prediction and prevention, and water resource management. This review offers many examples of such serendipity and suggests that the view from space may even have effects on local governmental arrangements.
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