Location
Howard Johnson Plaza-Hotel, Columbia/ Enterprise Rooms
Start Date
24-4-1990 2:00 PM
End Date
24-4-1990 5:00 PM
Description
To understand global change and the increasing demands of human activity, it is essential that we document and comprehend how the Earth works as a system. The international scientific community is organizing research efforts to advance our knowledge of both natural and human-induces global change. The U.S. Global Change Research Program, a consensus interagency plan, defines the U.S. element of those efforts.
Mission to Planet Earth, the central NASA contribution to the U.S. Global Change Research Program, includes two proposed initiatives in the FY 1991 Federal budget: the Earth Observing System (EOS) and Earth Probes.
EOS consists of a space-based observing system, a Data and Information System (EOSDIS), and a scientific research program. It represents the initiation of a comprehensive, global observing system with broad and high-resolution spectral and spatial, as well as long-term temporal, coverage of the Earth. The space component will consist of two series of polar-orbiting platforms, with launch of the first platform in FY 1998. EOS will be supplemented by companion European and Japanese platforms, as well as the continuing operational environmental satellites.
Paper Session I-B - Earth Observing System
Howard Johnson Plaza-Hotel, Columbia/ Enterprise Rooms
To understand global change and the increasing demands of human activity, it is essential that we document and comprehend how the Earth works as a system. The international scientific community is organizing research efforts to advance our knowledge of both natural and human-induces global change. The U.S. Global Change Research Program, a consensus interagency plan, defines the U.S. element of those efforts.
Mission to Planet Earth, the central NASA contribution to the U.S. Global Change Research Program, includes two proposed initiatives in the FY 1991 Federal budget: the Earth Observing System (EOS) and Earth Probes.
EOS consists of a space-based observing system, a Data and Information System (EOSDIS), and a scientific research program. It represents the initiation of a comprehensive, global observing system with broad and high-resolution spectral and spatial, as well as long-term temporal, coverage of the Earth. The space component will consist of two series of polar-orbiting platforms, with launch of the first platform in FY 1998. EOS will be supplemented by companion European and Japanese platforms, as well as the continuing operational environmental satellites.
Comments
Science Payloads
Session Chairman: Joe Alexander, NASA Assistant Associate Administrator for Space Science and Applications, NASA Headquarters
Session Organizer: Lee O’Fallon, NASA, Kennedy Space Center