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2 Earth Observations and Presidential Initiatives
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From page 13... ... They directly support the need to protect life and property though improved forecasting and to promote economic vitality, while increasing knowledge and understanding about the complex planet on which we live. A third presidential initiative, the 2004 Vision for Space Exploration, looks beyond Earth and establishes new priorities for NASA.4 The Climate Change Research initiative led to the establishment of the national Climate Change Science Program (CCSP) Read the entire page →
From page 14... ... explore the uses and identify the limits of evolving knowledge to manage risks and opportunities related to climate variability and change.6 The Global Earth Observation initiative led to the Earth Observation Summit, hosted by the United States, in July 2003 in Washington, D.C. Thirty-three nations and the European Commission participated in the summit and affirmed "the need for timely, quality, long-term, global information as a basis for sound decision making."7 They noted, "In order to monitor continuously the state of the Earth, to increase understanding of dynamic Earth processes, to enhance prediction of the Earth system, and to further implement our environmental treaty obligations, we recognize the need to support improved coordination of strategies and systems for observations of the Earth and identification of measures to minimize data gaps, with a view to moving toward a comprehensive, coordinated, and sustained Earth observation system or systems. Read the entire page →
From page 15... ... 10R&A has customarily supplied funds for enhancing fundamental understanding in a discipline and stimulating the questions from which new scientific investigations flow. R&A studies also enable conversion of raw instrument data into fields of geophysical variables and are an essential component in support of the research required to convert data analyses to trends, processes, and improvements in simulation models. Read the entire page →

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... They directly support the need to protect life and property though improved forecasting and to promote economic vitality, while increasing knowledge and understanding about the complex planet on which we live. A third presidential initiative, the 2004 Vision for Space Exploration, looks beyond Earth and establishes new priorities for NASA.4 The Climate Change Research initiative led to the establishment of the national Climate Change Science Program (CCSP)

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... explore the uses and identify the limits of evolving knowledge to manage risks and opportunities related to climate variability and change.6 The Global Earth Observation initiative led to the Earth Observation Summit, hosted by the United States, in July 2003 in Washington, D.C. Thirty-three nations and the European Commission participated in the summit and affirmed "the need for timely, quality, long-term, global information as a basis for sound decision making."7 They noted, "In order to monitor continuously the state of the Earth, to increase understanding of dynamic Earth processes, to enhance prediction of the Earth system, and to further implement our environmental treaty obligations, we recognize the need to support improved coordination of strategies and systems for observations of the Earth and identification of measures to minimize data gaps, with a view to moving toward a comprehensive, coordinated, and sustained Earth observation system or systems.

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... 10R&A has customarily supplied funds for enhancing fundamental understanding in a discipline and stimulating the questions from which new scientific investigations flow. R&A studies also enable conversion of raw instrument data into fields of geophysical variables and are an essential component in support of the research required to convert data analyses to trends, processes, and improvements in simulation models.

Read the entire page →

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2 Earth Observations and Presidential Initiatives Pages 13-15

2 Earth Observations and Presidential Initiatives
Pages 13-15