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In particular, these have led to some national 
developments: 
* Setting up of the British National Space Centre 
* The commercialisation of NRSC Ltd 
* The acceptance of Earth observation as a 
legitimate activity 
* The setting up of the Earth Observation Data 
Centre (EODC) Processing and Archiving 
Centre (PAF) 
* The development of BARSC and its European 
equivalent EARSC 
and some international developments: 
* The designation of 1992 as the International 
Space Year 
* The "mission to Planet Earth" programme of the 
1990s 
* A coherent international satellite programme. 
The period has seen the commercialisation of data 
distribution with companies such as EOSAT, SPOT 
IMAGE, ERSUN being set up, as well as the setting 
up of the National Remote Sensing Centre Ltd. 
This was founded in 1989 to commercialise the 
operation of two government-run earth observation 
data processing facilities, NRSC 
and EODC, both co-located at Farnborough. They 
are to run the UK processing and Archiving 
Facility (PAFF), under contract to the Defence 
Research Agency, for the processing, archiving and 
distribution of data from ERS-1 for ESA and to 
offer a one-step total remote sensing capability. 
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4. SOURCES OF INFORMATION 
4.1 Photogrammetry 
The Photogrammetric Record, edited by K B 
Atkinson, and the Photogrammetric Society 
newsletter which is produced by R A Baldwin, are 
the main sources of information on photogrammetric 
activity in UK. 
A list of members, and addresses of corporate 
members, is published in the April issue of the 
Record every year, and the index to Volume XII can 
be found in the October 1988 issue, and the index 
to Volume XIII in October 1991. 
4.2 Remote Sensing 
The main source of information on remote sensing 
activity is the "Remote Sensing Yearbook" (1990) 
edited by A P Cracknell, L W B Hayes and W G Huang 
and published by Taylor & Francis (London). 
Other useful sources include "Geographic 
Information 1991", the Yearbook of the Association 
for Geographic Information edited by J Cadoux- 
Hudson and D I Heywood, and "The European 
Community, Crossroads in Space" (1991), report by 
an advisory panel. 
The responses to the questionnaires and the 
correspondence relating to the production of this 
report are deposited in the Photogrammetric 
Society archives at University College London and 
with the Remote Sensing Society.