Impacts of NASA´s remote sensing data on policy and decision making at state and local agencies in the United States

Author

Kalluri, S. ; Gilruth, P. ; Bergman, R. ; Plante, R.

Author_Institution

Raytheon, Upper Marlboro, MD, USA

Volume

3

fYear

2002

fDate

24-28 June 2002

Firstpage

1691

Abstract

Under the aegis of the EOSDIS program, NASA´s Synergy program has been exploring the development of applications for users at the state, local and tribal level in the US using remote sensing data in six application sectors. Eleven information centers or InfoMarts have been established during the past two years, and the data sets and products from these InfoMarts are having a significant impact on decision making abilities within their user communities. Selected impacts of the Synergy project and lessons learned are presented.

Keywords

remote sensing; AVHRR; EOSDIS program; InfoMarts; NASA Synergy program; NDVI; UMAC; USA; Upper Midwest Aerospace Consortium; agriculture; applications; data products; data sets; decision making; farming; information centers; normalized difference vegetation index; remote sensing data; urban studies; user communities; water resource management; Agriculture; Crops; Decision making; Earth Observing System; Image sensors; NASA; Remote sensing; Resource management; Satellite broadcasting; Spatial resolution;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2002. IGARSS '02. 2002 IEEE International

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7536-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2002.1026223

Filename

1026223