Ebook: TORUS 2 -- toward an open resource using services cloud computing for environmental data

Cover -- Half-Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface: Why TORUS? Toward an Open Resource Using Services, or How to Bring Environmental Science Closer to Cloud Computing -- Structure of the book -- Part 1: Earth Science Remote Sensing -- Introduction to Part 1: From Above We Can See Earth Better -- 1. A Brief History of Remote Sensing -- 1.1. History -- 1.2. Fields of application -- 1.3. Orbits, launchers and platforms -- 1.4. The acquired data are digital images -- 1.5. So what is remote sensing? Some definitions -- 1.6. Notes -- 1.7. References -- 2. Physics of RS