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- Title
Earth Monitoring: Not enough eyes on the prize.
- Authors
Witze, Alexandra
- Abstract
The article focuses on the U.S. government's problem to fund and maintain its Earth monitoring satellites. It relates that turf battle among several government agencies as well as tight budgets, threaten the future of the country's Earth monitoring. The author remarks that one way to simplify things is to have a unified system for operational measurement of the variables of interest, like the National Polar-Orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) combines activities, which is previously carried out by the National Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA) and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) low-Earth-orbiting satellites with the defence department's weather-satellite programme.
- Subjects
UNITED States; ARTIFICIAL satellites; SPACE vehicles; AEROSPACE industries; SCIENTIFIC satellites; EARTH resources technology satellites; ORBITING astronomical observatories; GOVERNMENT agencies; UNITED States. National Aeronautics &; Space Administration; UNITED States. National Oceanic &; Atmospheric Administration
- Publication
Nature, 2007, Vol 450, Issue 7171, p782
- ISSN
0028-0836
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/450782a