This paper examines legal issues relating to the use of space technologies for monitoring World Heritage sites. Thanks to international cooperation based on the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the European Space Agency (ESA) 'Open Initiative on the Use of Space Technologies to Support the World Heritage Convention', State Parties particularly among developing countries are benefiting from the use of images to study World Heritage sites. This paper looks at the World Heritage Convention and how space technologies can support the implementation of the Convention from the viewpoint of 1) the legal framework of remote sensing from space and from 2) general international law: the protection of World Heritage sites and associated issues of State sovereignty.
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