Toward New Partnerships In Remote Sensing Government, the Private Sector, and Earth Science Research (2002) / Chapter Skim
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5. Findings and Recommendations
5. Findings and Recommendations
Pages 44-52
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The two major public-private sector partnerships that have operated for several years are instructive in assessing what has worked well, what requires further attention, and what in such partnerships can be improved. The steering committee found widespread support in the scientific community for maintaining and even expanding public-private partnerships to provide remote sensing data for scientific research.
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Government agencies that are involved in obtaining or disseminating remote sensing data for research must respond to the policy priorities of both the White House and the Congress and are dependent upon annual budget allocations that may constrain or reshape their programs. In addition, government agencies operate in an environment of complex regulations and public accountability that requires them to engage in what are often lengthy contract negotiations with private sector firms in order to establish a public-private partnership to provide data for scientific research.
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Because the government already maintains data centers and long-term archives for scientific data collected through government satellite programs, a logical extension of this role is for the government to provide similar services for data collected under public-private partnerships. This function would be valuable for research, particularly research involving long time periods, and it is unlikely to be done by the private sector under current funding programs.]
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U.S. Department of Commerce licensing procedures provide that all remote sensing data under a government license be offered to a government data repository before they can be destroyed.
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Problems may arise with the use of remote sensing data from sensors that have different capabilities and characteristics. The problem of data continuity existed when scientific data came solely from the government, but it is exacerbated when scientific data are obtained from a mixture of government and publicprivate sources.
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Because most of the customers of private sector remote sensing firms do not require highly calibrated data, commercial firms have not routinely provided calibration, validation, and verification services at the level required by the science community. In public-private partnerships, the government has often assumed responsibility for calibration, validation, and verification.
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The government should facilitate direct communication between members of the scientific community and the private sector, including communication during the early stages of planning for public-private remote sensing programs. THE PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP The SDB and SeaWiFS were created to obtain commercially produced remotely sensed data for scientific research and to stimulate the U.S.
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The purchase of private sector data by the public sector for use in scientific research involves many more costs to both parties than the simple transaction cost. They include the costs of data dissemination and of verification and validation on the government side and the costs to both the government and the private sector if changes are made to a contract or if delays occur on the private sector side.
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