Secure World Foundation formerly announced today a new partnership with Imaging Notes magazine.
A key effort of Secure World Foundation centers on strengthening or developing the policies and institutions that improve the utility of space technologies in support of human and environmental security needs.
Imaging Notes is a premier publication for commercial, government and academic remote sensing professionals around the world. The quarterly magazine is also affiliated with the Alliance for Earth Observations, a program of The Institute for Global Environmental Strategies.
"Space systems can provide significant benefits to humanity but they are generally underutilized," said Dr. Ray Williamson, Executive Director of Secure World Foundation. "This partnership with Imaging Notes magazine provides an important vehicle for our efforts to make more effective use of space tools to enhance human and environmental security."
Dr. Williamson also serves as editor of Imaging Notes.
"In the four years since Imaging Notes has been independently owned, the links have been more widely recognized among national and global security, climate and environmental changes, renewable energy, and human security," said Myrna James Yoo, Publisher/Managing Editor of the magazine.
Now understood, Yoo added, is that remotely sensed data is key for understanding and addressing these most important, interrelated issues of our time.
This partnership with Secure World Foundation allows Imaging Notes to focus more acutely on human security as the overarching theme, Yoo said. "Human security is an issue when climate change and storms cause climate refugees, and when wars about oil cause human suffering and highlight the need for renewable energy."
Imaging Notes, with its focus on applications of remote sensing and geospatial technologies, Yoo concluded, "is the ideal vehicle to deliver the messages of the Secure World Foundation " long-term space security, with the ultimate goal of long-term human security."
Dr. Williamson explained that the magazine will continue to solicit informative articles on the "what, wherefore, and how to" of meeting human and environmental security needs, and will be adding the dimensions of international policy—legal and institutional mechanisms needed for ensuring that the benefits of space activities reach people effectively and efficiently.
"With its partnership with Secure World Foundation, this magazine is dedicated to offering timely, insightful applications articles on solutions to human security needs," Dr. Williamson said. "Future issues will cover the roles of satellite observations and geospatial technolo¬gies in understanding and responding to global change, in natural disaster mitiga¬tion and response, and in preventing the sorts of human-made disasters that directly harm our security on this planet," he said.
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