Keeping Up with Remote Sensing and GI Advances—Policy and Legal
- Paper number
IAC-07-E6.4.10
- Author
Dr. Mukund Rao, Navayuga Spatial Technologies Pvt. Ltd., India
- Coauthor
Mr. K.R. Sridhara Murthi, Antrix Corporation, India
- Year
2007
- Abstract
Technological advances in remote sensing capabilities, wider participation of commercial firms and the possibilities of ‘processing’ data to create value-added information have given rise to a range of policy and legal issues in the geographic information (GI) field. How far satellite images can still be considered a ‘public good’ conflicts between commercial and national interests, especially where security is concerned, sovereignty and the rights of sensed states, shutter control vs transparency, data access, IPR and infringement of privacy are all discussed. A multilateral debate to formulate a GI policy that will take account of these while ensuring that the full benefits of remote sensing are available to society is called for. This paper discussses some of the key and important issues that relate to defining policy considerations from a national and international perspective.
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