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National Strategy for Civil Earth Observations

National Strategy for Civil Earth Observations

Executive Office of the President Nation

Paperback

United States Politics

ISBN10: 1500613754
ISBN13: 9781500613754
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jul 23 2014
Pages: 62
Weight: 0.37
Height: 0.13 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.02
Language: English
Each year, Federal agencies invest billions of dollars in civil Earth observations. Through these investments, the U.S. government ensures that the Nation's decision makers, businesses, first-responders, farmers, and a wide array of other stakeholders have the information they need about climate and weather, disaster events, land-use change, ecosystem health, natural resources, and many other characteristics of the planet. Taken together, Earth observations provide the indispensable foun-dation for meeting the Federal Government's long-term sustainability objectives and advancing U.S. social, environmental, and economic well-being.As the Nation's Earth-observation capacity has grown, however, so has the complexity of this endeavor. Today, U.S. Earth-observation efforts are distributed among more than 100 programs under the purview of Federal agencies and non-Federal entities that both produce and use these data. The National Strategy for Civil Earth Observations, developed in response to congressional direction, is designed to maximize interagency coordination, increase efficiency and efficacy of future Earth-observation efforts, and promote environmental and economic sustainability.The National Strategy includes two main elements:

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