The introduction even reads like this art project: "Satellites provide us with a unique and long-sought after opportunity to look at Earth from space. These spacecraft now enable us to observe and measure the many forces of nature which converge on our planet. Mankind can now observe the global nature of the environmental factors which interact to form the complex systems we call Earth. From the unique vantage point of space, sophisticated environmental/weather satellites bring us information about cloud formations and movements, precipitation amounts, temperatures, ocean currents, sea surface temperatures, air and water pollutants, drought and floods, severe weather conditions, vegetation, insect infestations, ozone content of the atmosphere, volcano eruptions, and other factors that affect our daily lives. They have also provided us with less tangible aesthetic values which help shape attitudes about the environment of this planet. This global attitude is, perhaps, just as important as the hard data that the satellites provide."
I was hoping that this was some security vulnerability that let you receive images from private satellites.