ISPRS Workshop on Service and Application of Spatial Data Infrastructure, XXXVI(4/W6), Oct.14-16, Hangzhou, China 
NASA have established a Commercial Remote Sensing Space 
Policy (CRSSP) Implementation Plan Working Group (IPWG) 
to develop the plan to carry out these responsibilities. This Web 
site serves as the official IPWG mechanism to: 
• Provide information about the Federal civil aAgency 
plan being developed to implement the policy. 
• Seek public comments on the plan and other Federal 
civil cgency implementation activities. 
• Post summaries of public comments. 
2. DISASTER RESPONSE FOCUS 
The USGS hazards activities gather data and prepare geospatial 
products that deal with describing, documenting, and 
understanding natural hazards and their risks. This information 
is delivered to public officials to help them make decisions 
about land use and hazard-resistant design requirements and to 
businesses and citizens to help them make long-term decisions 
about the use of and improvements on their land. USGS 
information is also used to help emergency officials, businesses, 
and citizens make crucial short-term decisions related to 
evacuations, movement of property, and rescue and recovery in 
response to current or impending natural disasters. USGS 
activities include long-term monitoring and forecasting, short 
term prediction, and real-time crisis monitoring and 
communication with civil authorities and others. The USGS 
has the primary Federal responsibility for monitoring and 
notifying civil authorities about earthquakes, volcanoes, 
landslides, geomagnetic field changes, and wildlife disease 
outbreaks. The USGS streamgage network provides most of the 
flow data used by the National Weather Service (NWS) in 
carrying out its mission of forecasting floods and droughts. 
USGS also prepares risk assessments for regions vulnerable to 
natural hazards and conducts studies following disasters to help 
develop strategies to mitigate future hazards. 
The information provided by the USGS is essential to support 
saving lives and reducing the costs of natural disasters. The 
focus of the USGS for the beginning of the 21st century is on 
delivering information in real time so that lives can be saved 
and further damage avoided by the quick actions of emergency 
managers, businesses, and citizens. Future efforts will 
concentrate on more extensive monitoring, advanced 
technology, and better and faster synthesis of information to 
detect hazardous events and convey the information to decision 
makers and the public. The USGS will also conduct risk 
assessments of natural hazards and intensive studies after an 
event to provide a solid scientific basis for land use planners 
and the public so that they can minimize losses from future 
hazardous events. 
3. CRSSP IMAGERY-DERIVED REQUIREMENTS 
(CIDR) ENTRY TOOL 
One of the goals of the USGS Commercial Data Program is to 
collect and provide query/report capabilities on the near-term 
land remote sensing data requirements of U.S. Federal civil 
agencies. This high-profile effort is part of the implementation 
of the Commercial Remote Sensing Space Policy to assist 
agencies in leveraging resources in areas of common interest. 
The requirements information gathered/provided will be used 
to: 
• Generate a civil agency requirements database to 
facilitate partnerships among agencies (or even within 
agencies). 
• Serve as documented evidence for potential funding 
initiatives. 
• Satisfy requirements with known existing data 
sources where possible (eventually including 
Geospatial One-Stop). 
• Provide industries (e.g. commercial satellite industry) 
with a snapshot of civil agency needs in order for 
them to respond with better and more-tailored data 
and services. 
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Federal civil agencies are to use the CIDR tool to enter their 
remote sensing data requirements for upcoming years. This 
collection of data requirements will then be analyzed to find 
intersections in the data requirements, to put those users with 
intersecting requirements in contact and enable the opportunity 
for collaboration on potential purchases, as well as to provide 
commercial vendors with these intersections so that they may 
use this information to assist in their data acquisition scheduling 
for known geographic areas of interest. 
4. USGS COMMERCIAU DATA PURCHASES (UCDP) 
IMAGERY 
The UCDP imagery collection is an archive of commercial 
remote sensing imagery from several different commercial 
vendors. The overall goal of the UCDP imagery collection is 
to provide data to qualified users, primarily Federal agencies, at 
no cost or at a nominal cost. Limitations on which users have 
access to use/purchase copies of the imagery are based on 
vendor licensing for individual images. Users are allowed to 
search all UCDP imagery in the archive, but are restricted to 
ordering only properly licensed images. Users have the option 
to purchase imagery license upgrades for imagery not currently 
licensed appropriately for their Federal agency. The 
Commercial Remote Sensing Data Contracts (CRSDC), 
available though the USGS, handle the imagery license 
upgrades. The imagery license upgrades enable Federal users to 
purchase and use a copy of the imagery at a nominal fee. 
Copies of current imagery can be downloaded/purchased 
through the USGS Earth Explorer client. Users cannot specify 
processing parameters for the imagery. (For example, if an 
IKONOS image was originally purchased from Space Imaging 
as a "Standard Ortho" product, Universal Transverse Mercator