South Africa Hosts International Remote Sensing Community
View on EE Publishers website"An important comment was made by Lawrence Friedl during his presentation on NASA’s earth science programme. He mentioned that his agency had recently established a new consortium, led by Resources for the Future, to advance techniques to quantify the economic and social value from the use of earth observation to inform decisions. The consortium, which consists of earth scientists and economic scientists, will apply a variety of economic techniques (e.g. yield preferences) to a range of case studies where earth observation was used for decision making in order to determine the economic value and to establish which techniques are more appropriate for certain earth science applications. The ultimate goal being to create an improved literature base which can be drawn on when there is a need determine the value of funding for future earth observation initiatives. The programme is expected to run for five-years."
