International Cooperation in Land Imaging Satellite Systems

Paper number

IAC-08.B1.1.5

Author

Mr. Timothy Stryker, U.S. Geological Survey, United States

Year

2008

Abstract

On August 14, 2007, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy issued a report calling for the United States to establish a National Land Imaging (NLI) Program.  NLI will be led by the U.S. Department of the Interior, in close consultation with other U.S. Federal, State, local, and tribal authorities.  NLI will serve the Nation by acquiring and providing operational land imaging capabilities and applications to support U.S. economic, environmental, foreign policy, and security interests.  NLI will acquire and retain an uninterrupted, very high-quality record of the Earth’s land surfaces, and achieve the widest beneficial use of civil operational land imaging throughout the United States.  

NLI program management envisions a comprehensive, national, civil operational land imaging program augmented by international cooperation, benefiting U.S. global land imaging operations, international science, and U.S. interests in global economic, civil, and environmental security.  

NLI will advance U.S. interests through cooperation with foreign governments, international organizations, and foreign commercial firms to fulfill U.S. operational land imaging requirements.  The program will serve as the conduit for the exchange of civil operational land imaging data and applications among the United States and foreign governments and international organizations.  NLI will foster relations with other nations and international bodies to advance the use of Earth observation, science, and applications for geopolitical stability, economic growth, and sustainable development of all nations.  The program will advance the interests the U.S. Department of the Interior as manager of U.S. territorial lands and represent and promote the interests of the U.S. Geological Survey in international science and in the application of science and technology for U.S. societal benefit. 

In the context of these goals, the paper will describe current and future U.S. cooperation with foreign governments, international organizations, and international coordination groups, to support U.S. national interests in operational land imaging.

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