The benefits of very low earth orbit for earth observation missions

@article{Crisp2020TheBO,
  title={The benefits of very low earth orbit for earth observation missions},
  author={Nicholas H. Crisp and Peter C. E. Roberts and Sabrina Livadiotti and Vitor Toshiyuki Abrao Oiko and Steve Edmondson and Sarah J. Haigh and Claire Huyton and Luciana A. Sinpetru and K. L. Smith and Stephen D. Worrall and Jonathan Becedas and R. M. Dom'inguez and D. J. Gonz'alez and Virginia Hanessian and Anders M{\o}lgaard and J. Nielsen and Morten Bisgaard and Y.-A. Chan and Stefanos Fasoulas and Georg H. Herdrich and Francesco Roman{\`o} and C. Traub and D. Garc'ia-Alminana and S. Rodr'iguez-Donaire and Miquel Sureda and D. O. Kataria and R. B. Outlaw and B. Belkouchi and Alexis Conte and J. S. Perez and Rachel Villain and Barbara Heisserer and Ameli Schwalber},
  journal={Progress in Aerospace Sciences},
  year={2020}
}
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