importance to the remote sensing and
photogrammetry community. QUESTALERT will allow
the user to be kept informed on the latest news
on a given topic. Using this facility, an ERSAP
user will store a specific subject in a file of
interest and receive automatically new
information on the chosen subject upon each
update of the ERSAP database.
7.3.2 The ERSAP Standard Titles
Selected Current Awareness publications will
bring attention to recently entered report
literature pertaining to remote sensing and
photogrammetry. Each of the ERSAP standard
titles will be carefully tailored to fit the
given needs of a special research activity.
New topics will be added as the need arises,
others will be discontinued or redefined as
research demands dictate.
8. CONCLUSIONS
As can be seen from the above outline of the
features of the proposed European Remote Sensing
and Photogrammetry Database, the European Space
Agency responds to the needs of European and
international communities with a new service.
Many space agencies are contributing to an
international effort to understand the global
Earth system and to monitor the intricate links
between atmosphere, ocean and land.
ERS-1 (European Remote Sensing satellite),
launched in July 1991, represents the European
Space Agency's first contribution to
environmental monitoring via radar systems.
Additional European contributing programmes
include EARSEC (the European Airborne Remote
Sensing Capability Project) jointly supported by
ESA and the CEC (Commission of the European
Communities), ERS-2 and follow on European Polar
Platforms which will be launched starting from
1989 onwards.
Environmental space data, handled by these’
missions, will be used by the scientific
communities to generated report literature,
publications etc. which will be progressively
included into the proposed ERSAP database.
The proposed ERSAP database will complement and
be integrated into other services provided by
the ESRIN establishment in the field of Earth
observation.
This database can be viewed as the initial step
towards an international endeavour and effort to
provide a complete coverage and availability of
documentary resources in the field of remote
sensing, photogrammetry and related
applications.
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