geosatellite
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]geosatellite (plural geosatellites)
- A satellite that orbits the earth, especially one that maintains communication with a receiver on earth.
- 2012, Don Ihde, Listening and Voice:
- One imaginative artist has hooked up a geosatellite device that detects the wobble of the satellite to a digital piano and “played” the wobble music—it sounds quite like a Philip Glass or Steve Reich minimalist music.
- 2014, August E. Grant, Jennifer H. Meadows, Communication Technology Update and Fundamentals:
- Digital images of any sort, from family photographs to medical Xrays to geosatellite images, can be treated as data.
- 2017, Jean-Luc Lefebvre, Space Strategy, page 342:
- Determining the presence of a person or mobile object in a given zone using geosatellite position and other radiocommunication methods.
- 2022, Cécile Fabre, Spying Through a Glass Darkly: The Ethics of Espionage and Counter-Intelligence, page 22:
- For example, consider current norms of espionage, which license the wholesale collection of geosatellite intelligence by the military in wartime, and prohibit intelligence agents from blackmailing or bribing enemy civilians […]