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What Next?. Kass Green President, ASPRS Presented at the Pecora 17. Three Decades of Success. The power of the Landsat family of systems to provide consistent measurement and monitoring of the Earth’s resources change cannot be disputed. Coastal Change - Taiwan. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
November 18, 2008
What Next?What Next?
Kass GreenPresident, ASPRS
Presented at the Pecora 17
Three Decades of SuccessThree Decades of Success
The power of the Landsat family of systems to provide consistent measurement and monitoring of the Earth’s resources change cannot be disputed.
Coastal Change - TaiwanCoastal Change - Taiwan
Landsat TM P118 R43 Jul 21, 1990
Landsat TM P118 R44 Jul 21, 1990
Landsat ETM+ P118 R43 Mar 13, 2001
Images courtesy of MDA Federal
November 18, 2008Images courtesy of Sam Goward
Wildfire Risk Assessment and PreparednessWildfire Risk Assessment and Preparedness
Imagery courtesy of Insurance Services Office
Orange County, California
Cleared for development in 1998, new housing development by 2000
Grass and shrub in 1998, cleared for development by 2000
Grass and shrub in 1998, new housing development by 2000
Forest Loss to Agriculture:Forest Loss to Agriculture:Soybean Expansion in BrazilSoybean Expansion in Brazil
1996 2002
52° 45’ 02.03” W, 24° 31’ 07.49” S
Map courtesy of USDA FSA
Urban ExpansionUrban Expansion
From“Decadal Development Within the Las Vegas
Valley, Nevada, from the Year 1950 through
1999”Presented at the ESRI
User’s Conferenceby
Michael J. WallenSouthern Nevada Water
Authority
The Value of Landsat DataThe Value of Landsat Data
In a 2006 survey of 1300 respondents, from across the world, ASPRS learned that loss of Landsat like moderate resolution imagery would cost
$1.278 billion annually
Thirty Years of Success, But a Program Thirty Years of Success, But a Program Still at RiskStill at Risk
Three years ago, at Pecora 16 LCDM funding was in serious jeopardy The thought of a continuously funded,
operational civilian moderate resolution earth observing was still a glimmer in Gene Whitney’s eye
As a Unified CommunityAs a Unified Community
We Wrote letters to the White House and
Congress Spoke everywhere we could concerning the
societal value of Landsat and the urgent need to stop the continual programmatic uncertainty in the Landsat program
Three Years of ProgressThree Years of Progress
After decades of being held hostage
Landsat data is freely accessible to all users
In our wildest dreams, we will not be able to fathom what the world community will be able to create with this free data.
Three Years of SuccessThree Years of Success
LCDM is funded, being built and is in good shape
The National Land Imaging Plan (NLIP) was released
Three Years of ProgressThree Years of Progress
ASPRS working with America View and the Space Council crafted draft legislation which was presented to Congressional staffers in September of this year in support of the National Land Imaging Program.
Three Years of ProgressThree Years of Progress
The Department of Interior National Geospatial Advisory Committee (NGAC) called for the Presidential Transition Team to; “Establish and oversee an Urgent Path
Forward for implementation of geospatial programs necessary to support current national priorities and essential government services underpinning NSDA, such as:
Imagery for the NationalNational Land Imaging ProgramNational Land Parcel Data”
Three Years of ProgressThree Years of Progress
President-elect Obama’s Space Program includes language for“Enhancing Earth Mapping:
Obama will continue support for the Landsat Data Continuity Mission, which allows study of the earth’s land surfaces and provides valuable data for agricultural, educational, scientific, and government use.”
Three Years of ProgressThree Years of Progress
You in this community, the members of ASPRS an other organizations have made a difference.
You have had impact
But Much More Must Be AccomplishedBut Much More Must Be Accomplished
We must implement the recommendations of the National Land Imaging Plan
1. The United States must commit to continue the collection of moderate resolution land imagery
2. The United States should establish and maintain a core operational capability to collect moderate-resolution land imagery through the procurement and launch of a series of U.S. owned satellites.
3. The United States should establish the Land Imaging Program, hosted and managed by the Department of Interior to meet all US civil land imaging needs.
We must secure funding for an operational moderate earth observing program
Operational Land Imaging is Critically NeededOperational Land Imaging is Critically Needed
The American public and the global community need an operational program to collect moderate resolution multi-spectral land remote imagery for Environmental security Homeland security Economic security Food security
We cannot manage what we do not measure
You Can Make A DifferenceYou Can Make A Difference
Do not let anyone tell you that our economic situation is so dire that we cannot save this planet from global warming, poverty, hunger, or the ravages of war.
Our community has never been so needed by our county, nor has more been required of us.
You Can Make A DifferenceYou Can Make A Difference
Yesterday, I listened to an esteemed colleague expound on the gloom of our future, and tell us that we should hope for less.
If we believe that the future will be a failure, then we doom ourselves to failure
You Can Make A DifferenceYou Can Make A Difference
If you believe in the Obama Administration and in America’s ability to reinvent itself with each morning in America,
Then America can apply its ingenuity, resources, and passion to playing a leading role in building a brighter future for all of the world’s inhabitants.
Any you, because you know what is required to measure and monitor our resources, must be an integral part of that future.