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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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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599 Given that the technical challenges will be met, the impact of remotely sensed information on environmental management will be determined primarily by policies gov erning the availability of remote sensing data to this application. Whereas there are promising developments in remote sensing data policy in selected situations, there remains a need for developed nations to seek and implement data policies and institutional mechanisms that are consistent with and provide support for wide-spread use of data from remote sensing Earth observing systems on environmental problems of global significance. The data policy issue becomes difficult particularly when: i) reasonably high resolution is required (much finer than that of AVHRR data, for example); ii) large areas are to be imaged, spanning perhaps several different countries and/or regions; iii) the data has less immediate value than cost to the potential user, even though the long range global benefit of the data may be demonstrably greater than its cost; and iv) data may be gathered only on request for regions of short run interest, consequently no global archive would be accumulated, even though future use of such data might become desirable if not essential for purposes of science or intervention. Overview This paper considers issues of remote sensing data policy in the context of active global environmental monitoring. The development begins with an examination in Section 2 of the scale and importance of the problem, and a brief review of outstanding technical issues. Section 3 reviews the current market place approach to remote sensing data policy, and comments on aspects of the inconsistency of that policy with respect to the long range public interest. Section 4 notes several recent initiatives that would modify the purely commercial data policy in directions favouring large scale environmental monitoring. The paper closes with a recommendation that could lead to a remote sensing data policy more in keeping with our collective sense of global environmental responsibility. 2. IMPLICATIONS OF GLOBAL MONITORING We assume that the issue of active global environmental monitoring is to be taken seriously, as recommended for example by the Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment (1972), the Brundtland Report [World Commission on Environment and Development, 1987], and the "Green Summit" of Paris, July, 1989. In spite of such recommendations, however, there has been little progress using high resolution sensor data beyond scientific studies and pilot projects. Need for Global Monitoring Through United Nations (UN) agreement, the mandate for tropical forest assessment has been given to the UN Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) based in Rome. FAO undertook a global assessment of forests for 1980 (published in 1983), and is actively

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