ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on enforcement properties of space-based remote satellite sensing (RSS) technologies with respect to their implications for how regulatory policy is created and implemented. It reviews economic analyses of environmental protection and regulatory enforcement, to indicate which factors are most important in deciding how RSS is likely to influence these activities. The chapter combines a review of the regulatory models and our assessment of RSS technologies to draw inferences about future policy directions for enforcing environmental regulations. It focuses on those aspects of the technologies that are most relevant to environmental enforcement. Conclusions in the literature on the costs of information used in an environmental regulation and compliance enforcement also are relevant to our discussion of remote satellite sensing. The chapter evaluates the particular advantages of high-resolution RSS information for a environmental regulatory enforcement.
