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... . As a part of the ESE strategic planning process, the ESE program office prepared a science plan, NASA Earth Science Enterprise Research Strategy for 2000-2010, which was reviewed by the National Research Council (NRC)
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... According to NASA officials, this mollified strategy will capitalize on NASA systems engineering expertise and NASA data and scientific capability to help NASA's federal partners develop decision support tools6 for a Throughout this report, the committee uses "the Applications Plan" to refer to the NASA document and "the NASA applications strategy" to refer to the suite of approaches and ideas on which the ESE Applications Program is founded and according to which it will be executed. 6In briefing the committee, NASA officials defined decision suncort tools as "interactive comn~,ter 1_ _ _ _ 1 _ ~ 1 · 1, 1 1 1 ~ · .
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... The January 2002 draft of the Applications Plan includes an appendix that lists five representative examples of applications topics and federal agency partners wild fire management with the U.S. Forest Service, coastal beach mapping with NOAA, agriculture crop greenness and production assessment with the U.S.
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... In briefing the committee NASA officials also described the following program deliverables: Verification and validation reports on benchmark applications approaches, Documented prototypes and guidelines (proceclures) that can facilitate potential operational implementation, Analyses and assessments regarding potential for commercial implementation, and Guidance for the next generation of research and development.
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