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CONTENTSReport from CEOS Workshop on Developing Country Activties
Activities of CEOS Ad Hoc Working Group on Networks
Second CEOS User Requirements Workshop
FAO Contribution to Developing Countries
Fourth CEOS Ad Hoc Data Policy Meeting---This page
The International Directory Network (IDN)
Report from CEOS Workshop on Developing Country Activities
CEOS Activities in 1994/News Highlights/CEOS Meeting Calendar
Fourth CEOS Ad Hoc Data Policy Meeting
Linda MoodieSenior International Relations Specialist,
NOAA/NESDIS, USA
On April 18-19, 1994, CEOS members met in Washington, D.C. for a fourth CEOS Ad Hoc Data Policy Meeting -- this meeting designed to discuss satellite data provision principles in support of operational environmental use for the public benfit.
- Previous data policy meetings had discussed satellite data exchange
principles in support of global change research, a mechanism to make commercial
satellite data available at reduced costs for global change research purposes,
and the initiation of a pilot project with the International Geosphere-Biosphere
Program.
The objectives of the April meeting were to:
- identify the extent to which there is a common view on data provision in support of operational environmental use for the public benefit;
- discuss and develop for CEOS Plenary consideration a set of Data Principles in Support of Operational Environmental Use for the Public Benefit; and
- prepare a report to the 1994 CEOS Plenary on the outcome of the meeting.
In keeping with the views of the 1993 CEOS Plenary when it endorsed NOAA's and NASA's offer to hold the ad hoc meeting, the meeting participants focused on areas of common understanding and those that promote increased access to and availability of satellite data. Members recognized the need for enough flexibility to accommodate the differing objectives, policies, and laws affecting CEOS agencies. A set of principles would need to be in harmony with the context in which CEOS agencies operate and yet still strive to promote the growth and potential benefits of space-based Earth observations -- one of the common goals which bring CEOS agencies together.
The meeting succeeded in producing a draft "Preliminary Resolution on Principles of Satellite Data Provision in Support of Operational Environmental Use for the Public Benefit." This draft resolution will be discussed and considered for adoption by CEOS members at the CEOS Plenary meeting in September 1994.
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