Toward New Partnerships In Remote Sensing Government, the Private Sector, and Earth Science Research (2002) / Chapter Skim
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1. Introduction: The Changing Environment
1. Introduction: The Changing Environment
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ESA operates Earth remote sensing satellites that collect data for use in Earth science research and applications. 2China and Brazil launched the China-Brazil Earth Resources Satellite (CBERS)
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The 1992 act specifically stated that one objective for Landsat 7's data policy was to stimulate the development of a private market for enhanced data and value-added services, and it reiterated the terms for licensing private sector remote sensing satellite systems introduced in the 1984 legislation.5 The Commercial Space Act of 1998 encouraged the administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to purchase, as appropriate, space-based remote sensing data from commercial providers for Earth science research.6 These legislative milestones, initiated by the U.S.
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March NOAA transfers the nation's 1983 civil operational remote sensing satellites to the private sector.
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U.S. Department of Commerce issues interim final rule, which sets the requirements for licensing, monitoring, and compliance for private remote sensing systems under the Land Remote Sensing Policy Act of 1992, the Commercial Space Act of 1998, and Presidential Decision Directive 23.
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In the federal government, a functional division of labor for civilian remote sensing exists across science and operational agencies. NASA is the science agency responsible for technological innovation in space, including innovations in remote sensing technologies, and for providing remote sensing data for scientific research.
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(The steering committee uses the term "public-private partnerships" to describe these relationships.) STUDY APPROACH AND ORGANIZATION Despite the policy emphasis in Washington, D.C., on the importance of public-private partnerships in satellite remote sensing and the belief that in some cases these partnerships or private sector data providers could replace government programs to provide remote sensing data for science, not all workshop participants agreed that this approach, a priori, was better than other possible approaches.
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In Chapter 2, four models for providing satellite remote sensing data for scientific research are examined. Chapter 3 discusses the NASA Science Data Buy and SeaWiFS as experiments in publicprivate partnerships.
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