Climate Monitoring Becomes a Key U.S. Government Priority
climate change, earth observation, geovisualization, spatial analysis February 5th, 2010In the president’s 2011 budget there’s a good deal of commitment to earth observation and climate change monitoring and modeling. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has been allocated $2 billion ( 58 percent more than this year’s budget) for a decade-long project to launch earth observation satellites that focus on collecting climate measures. At the heart of this is a mass restructuring of the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS). There’s also a strong commitment to earth observation and earth sciences at NASA, much of it climate-related.
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