Operational Aspects of Implementing a National Land Imaging Program
- Paper number
IAC-08.B1.2.4
- Author
Mrs. Jennifer Willems, U.S. Geological Survey, United States
- Coauthor
Dr. Bruce K. Quirk, U.S. Geological Survey, United States
- Year
2008
- Abstract
On August 14, 2007, the Executive Office of the President of the United States issued a report calling for the establishment of a National Land Imaging (NLI) Program. The NLI Program is a framework for continued collection of moderate-resolution, multispectral, remotely sensed data to ensure that U.S. and land imaging, global, and land science needs are met in the future. The report identifies specific recommendations for U.S. commitment to moderate-resolution land imagery, for the United States to maintain a core operational capability for land imagery while supplementing with similar data, and for the Department of the Interior (DOI) to establish, host, and manage the new program. With this designation, the DOI will provide focused leadership and management for the Nation’s civil operational land imaging efforts. This focused leadership will achieve a stable and sustainable operational space-based land imaging capability and ensure continued U.S. scientific, technological, and policy leadership in civil land imaging and the scientific community it supports. Through this new program, the land imaging data acquisition needs of Federal agencies, States, local land management officials, scientists, and geographic researchers will be coordinated and more effectively managed. With a single agency providing the technical leadership, gathering user requirements, and translating imaging needs into technical capabilities, the broad interests of the user community can be more efficiently met. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center has a long history of advancing the land remote sensing research and data archive. The EROS mission focuses on populating and preserving the world’s largest civilian archive of land remote sensing data, ensuring access to those archive holdings, and promoting new users and uses of the data. As such, EROS will be a key asset as the DOI establishes NLI Program.
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