International Archives of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. Vol. XXXII Part 7C2, UNISPACE III, Vienna, 1999 
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UNISPA CE III - ISPRS/NASA Seminar on 
“Environment and Remote Sensing for Sustainable Development” 
9:00 am -12:00 pm, 23 July 1999, VIC Room A 
Vienna, Austria 
Figure 3: GEOSPATIAL & FEATURE INFORMATION PRODUCTS 
Information 
Fusion 
Collateral Data 
Landuse/Landcover 
Streets 
Textual 
Civil Data 
Demographics 
Maps 
Other 
Imagery 
Electro-Optical 
NIR 
SWIR 
TM 
Radar 
Other 
Mass 
Distribution 
Remote Sensing Industry Development Trends Are Important to 
Understand, Appreciate, and Factor into UNISPACE III Consideration. 
Today, many remote sensing satellite systems are already in 
orbit operating, will soon be launched, are in definition, or 
are under development. Figure 4: is a representation of the 
expanding list of systems both nationally and commercially 
based. Clearly Sir Arthur Clarke’s, “Dawn of the Age of 
Transparency” lies just around the millennia comer.