Government programs for research and operational uses of commercial remote sensing data

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 88, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 3-16

  Birk, Ronald J ^a   Stanley, Thomas ^b   Snyder, Gregory I ^c   Hennig, Thomas A ^d   Fladeland, Matthew M ^e   Policelli, Fritz ^b  

^a NASA HEADQUARTERS   (United States)

^b STENNIS SPACE CENTER   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^d National Imagery and Mapping Agency   (United States)

^e NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Commercial remote sensing; Digital elevation model; Earth science; Hyperspectral; IKONOS; Imagery; LIDAR; Mapping; Monitoring; Multispectral; OrbView 3; QuickBird; Radar

Indexed keywords

ARRAYS; AVIATION; GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; MICROWAVES; OPTICAL RADAR; SENSORS;

COMMERCIAL SYSTEMS; DATA PRODUCTS;

REMOTE SENSING;

COMMERCIAL ACTIVITY; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; LIDAR; MULTISPECTRAL IMAGE; PRIVATE SECTOR; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

NASA;

EID: 0442283018     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2003.07.007     Document Type: Article

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