International Safeguards and Satellite Imagery Key Features of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle and Computer-Based Analysis /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Stein, Gotthard. (Editor), Richter, Bernd. (Editor), Nussbaum, Sven. (Editor), Niemeyer, Irmgard. (Editor), Jasani, Bhupendra. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009.
• Subjects: Law.; Remote sensing.; Public law.; Aeronautics > Law and legislation.; Nuclear engineering.; Political science.; European Law/Public International Law.; Nuclear Engineering.; Political Science.; Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry.; Air and Space Law.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-79132-4

With the considerable advances made in the quality of sensors on board commercial observation satellites, information gained from them not only became widely available, but very useful for the verification of a number of arms control treaties including the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear...

Table of Contents:

• B. Jasani, G. Stein, B. Richter: Non-proliferation and International Nuclear Material Safeguards
• B. Jasani: Satellite Capabilities and Orbits
• I. Niemeyer: Perspectives of Satellite Imagery Analysis for Verifying the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
• Part I A Key for the Nuclear Fuel Cycle: B. Jasani: Key Features of Nuclear Power Reactors
• B. Jasani: Key Features of Nuclear Research Reactors
• B. Jasani: Application of the "Key" to High Resolution Satellite Images
• B. Jasani: Key Features of Enrichment and Reprocessing plants
• Part II Computer-based Image Analysis: S. Nussbaum: Object-based Image Analysis
• S. Nussbaum: Nuclear Power Reactors
• S. Nussbaum: Nuclear Research Reactors
• Part III Image Data and Safeguards: S. Nussbaum, I. Niemeyer: Detection of Changes in Images
• I. Niemeyer: Concluding Remarks.