remote sensing
Remote sensing is the collective term for high-tech peeping devices designed to flaunt the Earth’s secrets to the highest bidder. Satellites, drones, and planes conspire to gaze upon farmland fertilizer patterns and secret rooftop gardens with equal enthusiasm. Celebrated as an emblem of the big data era, it ruthlessly tramples on the concept of privacy in its quest for every last detail. Purported to aid weather forecasting and disaster management, in practice it devours budgets and overwhelms users with a storm of technical jargon. In short, it promises to illuminate what we don’t know, only to expose what we never wanted anyone to see.