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... Scientists are interested in obtaining as many measurements as possible and want to share the data collected for operations and decision making purposes; government agencies are seeking to stretch limited resources by building partnerships with other organizations; and private-sector organizations can more readily recover costs by exploiting technologies developed by the government or by building onto systems that have already been paid for. In addition, many environmental data can only be obtained locally but must be interpreted in a national or global context.
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... 30 The Privatization of Environmental Data

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