Proceedings of the Symposium on Global and Environmental Monitoring: Proceedings of the Symposium on Global and Environmental Monitoring

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Title:: Proceedings of the Symposium on Global and Environmental Monitoring

Sub title:: techniques and impacts ; September 17 - 21, 1990, Victoria Conference Centre, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Year of publication:: 1990

Place of publication:: Victoria, BC

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Identifier (digital):: 856665355

Language:: English

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Persistent identifier:: 856669164

Title:: Proceedings of the Symposium on Global and Environmental Monitoring

Sub title:: techniques and impacts; September 17 - 21, 1990, Victoria Conference Centre, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Scope:: XIV, 912 Seiten

Year of publication:: 1990

Place of publication:: Victoria, BC

Publisher of the original:: [Verlag nicht ermittelbar]

Identifier (digital):: 856669164

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Signature of the source:: ZS 312(28,7,1)

Language:: English

Usage licence:: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Editor:: International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Commission of Photographic and Remote Sensing Data

Publisher of the digital copy:: Technische Informationsbibliothek Hannover

Place of publication of the digital copy:: Hannover

Year of publication of the original:: 2016

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Collection:: Earth sciences

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Title:: CONSTRUCTIVE TRENDS IN DATA POLICY IN SUPPORT OF GLOBAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING. Christine N. Specter, R. Keith Raney

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598 significant challenges. Effective environmental management on a global scale raises substantial issues of technology, policy, and economics [Raney and Specter, 1989]. This paper is concerned with the pivotal role of remote sensing data policy. It is our contention that remotely sensed information will have little impact on environmental management at the global scale without a change in the current data policy, or in the way that the cost of such data is underwritten by appropriate international agreements. Passive and Active Environmental Monitoring The first step is to recognize two legitimate roles of environmental monitoring: observation (passive monitoring); and intervention (active monitoring). Perhaps the largest and best known example of the first type is the Earth Observing System (EOS) of NASA [NASA, 1984], a $30 billion dollar effort to provide and interpret data from a variety of remote Earth sensors intended to start operation after launch in 1997. The objective of EOS is to observe, catalogue, analyze, and eventually to understand the environmental systems of the Earth. It is a legitimate scientific exercise of observation. The second role of environmental monitoring is to inform and assess regional and global efforts aimed at intervention on environmentally sensitive issues. One example of this type of active environmental monitoring [INPE, 1990] is the use of radar (RADAM- Brazil), AVHRR, and Landsat-TM by the Brazilian Institute for Space Research (INPE). The remotely sensed data was used to motivate and implement the national initiative "Our Nature", a program designed to shape national preservation policies for the country’s natural resources. It is intended to provide ongoing observations for the purpose of actively monitoring changes in Amazonia, and for guiding intervention and preservation programs. Technology and Data Policy Although active intervention on global environmental issues is not yet uniformly accepted as a necessity, there is a growing consensus in that direction. For effective environmental management to become a reality, active environmental monitoring will have to be widely adopted [World Commission on Environment and Development, 1987]. This requires that supporting systems and infra-structures be in place. There are two classes of issues to be satisfied before meaningful global environmental monitoring can be implemented: those of technology (data transformation); and those of policy (data availability). Interpretation of remote sensing data, and the development of techniques suitable for handling the large volumes of data required for global monitoring, have progressed substantially during the past decade. We argue that such progress will continue, and that by the end of the decade there will be no substantial technical barriers against the use of remote sensing data for active environmental monitoring. Technology is not seen as the pacing development.

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