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5. Findings and Recommendations
5. Findings and Recommendations
Pages 62-70
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At its January 2002 workshop, the Space Studies Board' s Steering Committee on Space Applications and Commercialization heard about wide-ranging and sophisticated applications of both satellite and airborne remote sensing data and information developed by state, local, and regional governments in the United States. Examples of remote sensing applications discussed at the workshop include the use of lidar for creating digital floodplain maps in North Carolina, the use of digital orthophotography and satellite remote sensing data to assess the impact of urban development in Richland County, South Carolina, and the use of Landsat data and high-resolution remote sensing data to map forested areas in Baltimore City and County.
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For example, many local government officials report that their use of remote sensing data is now or will soon be limited by the capacity of their data storage facilities. Moreover, because state and local governments characteristically have stable staffing with little turnover, they may find it difficult to respond to technological change and related requirements for new expertise for implementing remote sensing applications.
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Persuading nontechnical public sector managers and elected officials of the value of remote sensing data and information is dependent on producing costeffective information products. Although several participants in the workshop warned against reducing public presentations on remote sensing to "pretty pictures," the steering committee found that the images themselves have value in attracting the interest of nontechnical managers and officials.
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Geospatial Data Management Based on its analysis of the case studies presented at the workshop, the steering committee found that effective management of geospatial data can contribute significantly to state, local, and regional government adoption and use of remote sensing data. Some state and local governments reported at the workshop that purchases and users of remote sensing data are spread through several departments.
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It is not always clear whether the cost of the data should be seen as a capital or an operating expense. Moreover, expenditures for remote sensing data are likely to occur unevenly within and across fiscal years a source of problems, given that budgets for state and local jurisdictions generally assume marginal changes in recurring costs, and state and local governments cannot carry over expenditures from one budget year to the next.
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The steering committee learned that there are many ways that a more active and effective market for state and local applications of remote sensing data and information can be created, including by developing standards for digital spatial data and information products, encouraging the private remote sensing industry to build a market in the nonfederal public sector, and establishing opportunities to advertise state and local remote sensing data requirements to remote sensing data and service providers. Standards for Digital Spatial Data and Information Products Many state and local governments are adept at dealing with photogrammetric standards for spatial (mapping)
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Many workshop participants pointed to the successful efforts of GIS software companies to increase the numbers of trained technical personnel and thus increase the demand for their products through training programs and national conferences. Recommendation 6: To help remedy the lack of trained remote sensing personnel in state and local governments and to raise awareness of the advantages of working with satellite remote sensing data, commercial satellite data providers and remote sensing digital image processing vendors should look to GIS software companies as models for building the state and local government market.
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COOPERATION BETWEEN THE FEDERAL AND NONFEDERAL PUBLIC SECTORS The steering committee found widespread cooperation between federal agencies and state, local, and regional governments in developing remote sensing data applications. However, although this cooperation assisted both agencies and governments in doing their jobs better than they could have done alone, it focused on remote sensing applications that were developed for specific government programs rather than on general support to state and local governments that seek help in obtaining and using federal remote sensing data.
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