SPACE ASSESSMENTS
May 1st, 2003
BY KEITH NUTHALLAN ITALIAN conservation group has teamed up with the European Space Agency to collate satellite data of water pollution, in a bid to influence national government policies on land use and urbanisation. The Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF) Italia is concerned about environmental damage being caused at overdeveloped "hot spots," especially on the coast. As a result, it has joined with the space agency's Urban Expansion (UrbEx) project, which will supply detailed imagery of coastal areas, looking, for example, for "water pollution from civil and ...
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