Satellite Border Footprint

Space to share information, links etc. for the Satellite/Border/Footprint Workshop by Lisa Parks at the HMKV, organized by Francis Hunger

Participants

Home is Where you get a Signal A two hour sketch output by the “Büro für Unabwägbarkeiten” and Gabriel Menotti
Mapping micro crash-course by Max Neupert. Get the File:Excursion to Dortmund TV Tower.gpx to import this in Google Earth or view in Open Street Map.
Some pictures of the walk to the Florian tower and of the presentations
How can I Transmit via Satellite? - some thoughts on a question that appeared during the workshop
How to spot Iridium satellites with bare eyes - internet based weather and satellite prediction combined with three dimensional orientation in physical space

Space Is The Place A class by Max Neupert in the winter semester 2009
Space linklist a list of space related links, artists, astronomy and satellite tracking
Weather resources, forecasts, cloud satellite images and rain maps, not only for astronomy.
GPS mapping websites, cartography and GPS artworks
Suppliers#Electric and electronic parts consult this page if you want to buy electronics like GPS receivers/loggers
lyngsat.com great resource about all satellites and their footprints
satbeams.com
Michael Paulkner Infographic: satellites and their owners
vizworld collection of graphic visualizations about satellite technology
Satellites: A user manual Beautiful infomercials by agency ThisIsRealArt. for Astra-SES.
www.satsignal.net Huge collection of information about satellites and signals. Codes, decoding, software, mapping. Some of the software is commercial.

Power of Ten, Charles and Ray Eames Wikipedia. Other earth Zooms.
GMU:Works#Bernhard Hopfengärtner: HELLO WORLD!
Dead pixel in Google Earth, Helmut Smits
Ley lines, Nazca lines crop circles
www.diydrones.com Resources for DIY Drones (Autonomous Robotic Vehicles) which can carry scan devices (e.g. cameras)
Grassroots Mapping, forms of not-so-remote sensing and low-tech mapmaking

Heavens Above a homepage where you can find satellite passings in relation to your geocoordinates
Nasa JTrack a satellite tracking tool by NASA
Satellite tracking Realtime satellite tracking, with maps and further informations about selected satellites.

1337arts.com Project Ikarus – low cost near space remote technology
University of Wyoming’s balloon trajectory website Predict your balloon flight in google earth related to your geo-coordinates
telegraph.co.uk Article in the online edition of newspaper The Telegraph (UK): Teens capture images of space with 56 pounds camera and a balloon
Hobbyspace.com Near Space exploring with balloons on hobbyspace.com – a resource for amateur space action
Away 5 – Advanced Balloon Platform

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Ingo Günther talking about his work on satellite images (and globes)

Material listing
Friedrich von Borries, Matthias Böttger, Florian Heilmeyer: TV Towers / Fernsehtürme: 8,559 Meters Politics and Architecture 8.559 Meter Politik und Architektur ISBN 3868590242
Günther, Ingo: REPUBLIK.COM ISBN 3893229485
McCray, W. Patrick: Keep Watching the Skies, ISBN 0691128545
Paglen, Trevor: Blank Spots On The Map – The Dark Goegraphy Of The Pentagon's Secret World ISBN 9780525951018
Paglen, Trevor: I Could Tell You But Then You Would Have To Be Destroyed By Me - Emblems From The Pentagon's Black World ISBN 9781933633329
Parks, Lisa: Cultures in Orbit – Satellites and the Televisual ISBN 978-0822334972
Redfield, Peter: Space in the Tropics: From Convicts to Rockets in French Guiana ISBN 0520219856
Virilio, Paul. Open Sky, Verso, 1997, ISBN 1859841813, 9781859841815.
Virilio, Paul. Big Optics (scribd link)
Weibel, Peter (publisher): Ocean Earth: 1980 bis heute ISBN 3927789720