Open Space, The Global Effort for Open Access to Environmental Satellite Data
- Authors
- Mariel Borowitz
- Publisher
- MIT Press
- Tags
- technology policy; communications; climatology; meteorology; weather; data policy; international; atmospheric data; environmental change; government agencies; case studies; public policy; information policy; climate change; global warming; research; space; satellite; earth observation; remote sensing; open data; data policy; information policy; space policy; climate change; environment; environmental policy; environmental data; satellite data; history; international organization; united states; europe; japan; nasa; noaa; usgs; esa; eumetsat; jma; jaxa; wmo; geo; geoss; brazil; russia; china; india; south africa; national aeronautics and space administration; national oceanic and atmospheric administration; united states geological survey; european space agency; european organisation for the exploitation of meteorological satellites; japan meteorological agency; japan aerospace exploration agency; world meteorological organization; group on earth observation
- Date
- 2018-02-23
- Size
- 0.82 MB
- Lang
- en
An examination of environmental satellite data sharing policies, offering a model of data-sharing policy development, case and practical recommendations for increasing global data sharing.Key to understanding and addressing climate change is continuous and precise monitoring of environmental conditions. Satellites play an important role in collecting climate data, offering comprehensive global coverage that can't be matched by in situ observation. And yet, as Mariel Borowitz shows in this book, much satellite data is not freely available but restricted; this remains true despite the data-sharing advocacy of international organizations and a global open data movement. Borowitz examines policies governing the sharing of environmental satellite data, offering a model of data-sharing policy development and applying it in case studies from the United States, Europe, and Japancountries responsible for nearly half of the unclassified government Earth observation...