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9 CONCLUSIONS
Pages 87-88

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... Future technology using laser interferometry offers the potential for the development of the SSI mission, win its order-of-magnitude improvement in performance over the microwave differential tracking of Me SST. In Me remainder of this chapter, however, we will limit our attention to the two currently available technologies.
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... Some specific applications of these measurements would be: monitoring the secular change in the High Plains aquifer; global moo taring of soil moisture, which could provide a world wide inventory of the yield potential of agricultural lands; and studying evapotranspiration on large spatial scales. These measurements would also provide a means for monitoring the total mass of the world's continental ice sheets and the effects of their changes on global sea level.
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