Toward New Partnerships In Remote Sensing

Government, the Private Sector, and Earth Science Research

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• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Year: 2002
• eBook ISBN: 9780309503143
• Edition: 0
• Topic: Technology & Engineering
• Index: Technology & Engineering

The technical, scientific, policy, and institutional environment for conducting Earth science research has been changing rapidly over the past few decades. Changes in the technical environment are due both to the advent of new types and sources of remote sensing data, which have higher spatial and spectral resolution, and to the development of vastly expanded capabilities in data access, visualization, spatial data integration, and data management. The scientific environment is changing because of the strong emphasis on global change research, both nationally and internationally, and the evolving data requirements for that research. And the policy and institutional environment for the production of Earth observation data is changing with the diversification of both remote sensing data and the institutions that produce the data. In this report, the Space Studies Board's Steering Committee on Space Applications and Commercialization explores the implications of this changing environment, examining the opportunities and challenges it presents.

Table of contents

• Front Matter
• Preface
• Acknowledgment of Reviewers
• Contents
• Executive Summary
• 1 Introduction: The Changing Environment
• 2 Models for Providing Remote Sensing Data for Scientific Research
• 3 Toward Successful Public-Private Partnerships
• 4 Two Ways of Doing Business
• 5 Findings and Recommendations
• A Remote Sensing Systems
• B Biographical Information for Steering Committee Members and Workshop Speakers and Panelists
• C Workshop Agenda and Participants
• D Acronyms