HR: 08:00h
AN: B11F-01 INVITED    [Abstracts]
TI: The National Land Imaging Program
AU: * Quirk, B K
EM: quirk@usgs.gov
AF: U. S. Geological Survey, 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive, Reston, VA 20192,
AB: On August 14, 2007, the Administration issued a report calling for the United States to establish a National Land Imaging Program (NLIP). The NLIP is a framework for continuing collection of moderate-resolution, multispectral, remotely sensed data for the globe. The report calls for continued U.S. commitment to moderate-resolution land imagery, recommends the United States maintain a core operational capability for land imagery while supplementing its data with similar data, and designates the Department of the Interior (DOI) as the leader of the new program. The DOI would provide focused leadership and management for the Nation's civil operational land imaging efforts. This focused leadership would 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 disciplines 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. This discussion will describe the details of the report and possible future activities of the NLIP.
DE: 0480 Remote sensing
SC: Biogeosciences [B]
MN: 2007 Fall Meeting