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... The government is well placed to install and maintain the observing systems, negotiate data exchange agreements with other counties, and operate data centers that will hold the data in perpetuity.8 As a result, the general public can obtain a wide variety of environmental data, For example, Congress found that "it is in the best interest of the United States to maintain a permanent, comprehensive Government archive of global Landsat and other land remote sensing data for long-term monitoring and study of the changing global environment" (Public Law 102-555~. Similarly, various statutes direct NOAA to "acquire, maintain and distribute long-term databases, and to process and archive space-based data" (NASA/NOAA Memorandum of Understanding for Earth Observations Remotely Sensed Data Processing, Distribution, Archiving, and Related Science Support, July 1989~.
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... 300-321; Toward an Integrated Data Policy Framework for Earth Observations, Report of a workshop, Ottrott, France, July 22-24, 1996, International Space University, ISU/REP/97/1, 39 pp. i°A number of European government satellites have been launched with either commercial objectives (e.g., Systeme Probatoire pour ['Observation de la Terre tSPOT]


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