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Appendix A: Transforming Remote Sensing Data into Information and Applications, Executive Summary
Appendix A: Transforming Remote Sensing Data into Information and Applications, Executive Summary
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However, private firms are increasingly playing a more prominent role, even a leadership role, in providing satellite remote sensing data, through either public-private partnerships or the establishment of commercial entities that serve both government and private sector Earth observation needs. In addition, a large number of private sector value-adding firms have been established to work with end users of the data.
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This material provided a basis for much of the steering committee's analysis and figured significantly in its development of the report's findings and recommendations. BASIC OBSERVATIONS To encourage finding more effective ways to develop new and useful applications of remote sensing data, the steering committee considered barriers to as well as opportunities for developing successful applications through the transfer of knowledge and technology.2 Its examination of the remote sensing technology transfer process led to the identification of a number of gaps that must be bridged in order to develop effective civilian applications: 1 although a great deal of excellent work on operational applications has been done within the defense community, those developments were independent of civil remote sensing in terms of both budgets and technologies and hence they are not within the purview of this report.
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NASA's Office of Earth Science, Applications Division, in consultation with other stakeholders (e.g., agencies that use remote sensing data, such as the U.S. Geological Survey, Department of Transportation, Envisectors (regardless of whether they were produced by public or private sector image providers)
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Agencies should consider, as an initial step, using the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program to solicit proposals for developing training materials and courses, to foster the uses of remote sensing data in applications, and to encourage commercial enterprises to provide these services.
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It is important that the requirements of those who use applications are communicated to both public and private sector data producers throughout the process of designing new technologies and producing and disseminating remote sensing data. Recommendation 6.
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The work of the OpenGIS Consortium and the Federal Geographic Data Committee serves as an important international and national coordinating mechanism for efforts in standards development that should be continued. These and other entities pursuing common remote sensing data formats and standards should consult with the sensor and software vendors to ensure that data acquired from the use of new technologies for data acquisition, analysis, and storage and distribution are consistent with other data sets.
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