Remotely Sensed Data from Space. Distribution, Pricing, and Applications: An OTABackground Paper

摘要

A consensus is emerging within the government that Landsat 7 will be funded andmanaged by the public sector. While giving greater assurance that Landsat data will continue to be available for scientists and other users of the data, returning Landsat operations to the public sector creates a new set of problems. How the United States chooses to address the issues of pricing and distributing Landsat data will prove important not only for land remote sensing, but also for the immense amount of data that the Federal Government intends to gather about the atmosphere, land, and oceans using NASA's Earth Observing System. The short background paper summarizes the discussion concerning data pricing and distribution from a one-day workshop convened by OTA on May 20, 1992.