Remote sensing law is a multifaceted legal regime that draws
on a number of regulatory systems. Ÿis chapter will attempt
to address the four core regulatory systems, namely, traditional
space law, disarmament law, international remote sensing law,
and geospatial law. Ÿese regimes should be understood as separate regulatory spaces that interact with each other in a variety of
ways. Indeed, depending on the issue being addressed, they can
reorient themselves to the others; it would be folly to suggest that
they are always oriented in a speci¦ed way. Ÿese regimes shi¬
from discrete and separate to hierarchical to overlapping as the
context of their application changes. Ÿe best description would
be that their relationship is discursive in nature. It is system of
regulatory feedback loops across di§erent governance spaces (see
Figure 30.1). For example, international law creates obligations
for states, but state implementation of these obligations o¬en
leads to in©uencing the content of the obligation (Blount, 2012).
