Publication Date:
2014-09-09
Description:
The United States Government is not planning the continuation of the LANDSAT program beyond the anticipated date of 1988. Other sources of data which must ensure a continuity of information to the resource manager are environmental satellites to be launched in the next 5-10 by other entities. AEROS, and advanced Earth Resources Observation System, a private sector program, privately funded, and operated on a commercial basis, the AEROS data system, and CEDIS the combined environmental data information system are under development for the U.S. The European Space Agency's ERS-1, France's SPOT, Japan's MOS-1, Canada's RADARSAT, and India's IRS-1 satellites and their sensors are described.
Keywords:
EARTH RESOURCES AND REMOTE SENSING
Type:
Marshall Univ. Proc. of the Natl. Conf. on Energy Resource Management, Vol. 2; p 481-488
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