Review of Goals and Plans for NASA's Space and Earth Sciences (2006) / Chapter Skim
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5 Earth Science and Applications from Space
5 Earth Science and Applications from Space
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The roadmap is built around six guiding science questions, all of which have some heritage in previous science strategy documents (e.g., NASA's Earth Science Research Plan and plans for the U.S. Climate Change Science Program)
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The panel recommends that as part of long-term planning, NASA develop the applications aspects of its Earth sciences program to a greater degree than was done in the roadmap and strengthen the linkage between the science and applications program components. REVIEW OF PROPOSED IMPLEMENTING PROGRAMS The NASA Earth science roadmap committee assumed that the missions currently in formulation would be implemented, "providing a foundation for the roadmap." As noted by the NRC decadal survey interim report, the delay in some of these missions "jeopardizes NASA's ability to fulfill its obligations" in areas such as climate change research, and the reduced number of Earth System Science Pathfinder (ESSP)
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For example, small satellites could provide important flexibility to the overall program, and the land observation community could consider a constellation of small-satellite imagers to augment the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) Operational Land Imager mission.9 The NRC Earth science decadal survey interim report recommends some additional areas in which enabling technology is needed.10 GAPS, OPPORTUNITIES, AND INFRASTRUCTURE Although the roadmap attempts to capture the breadth of Earth science, there are important measurements that appear to have been neglected, for example, water vapor, air-sea heat fluxes, and landcover change.
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The Earth science roadmap is not strongly coupled to the exploration objectives, but it does directly respond to the NASA goals "to improve life here" and "to know our origin and destiny."b Earth science at NASA also has a number of external pressures on its near- and mid-term planning, including the requirement to contribute to a number of national imperatives such as the Climate Change Science Program, the Interagency Working Group on Earth Observation, the Commercial Remote Sensing and the Land Remote Sensing Space Policies, and international commitments such as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and GEOSS. The breadth of NASA's multidisciplinary bM.
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11. Climate Change Science Program.
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