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8/8/94: NASA STIMULATES USE OF SCIENCE DATA OVER THE INTERNET
Barbara Selby
Headquarters, Washington, D.C. August 8, 1994
(Phone: 202/358-1983)
RELEASE: 94-131
NASA today selected BDM Federal, Inc., McLean, Va., to form a Remote
Sensing Public Access Center (RSPAC) for demonstrating, testing and
transferring technology to help provide public use of Earth and space science
data over the Internet.
The intent of the new center is to stimulate broad public use, via the
Internet, of the very large remote sensing databases -- maintained by NASA and
other agencies -- to stimulate U.S. economic growth, improve the quality of
life and contribute to the implementation of a National Information
Infrastructure.
"We are looking forward to working with BDM to assist the public in
accessing and using NASA data," said Lee B. Holcomb, NASA's Director for High
Performance Computing and Communications. "We envision that this center will
play a key role in developing universal access to the products of NASA's Earth
and space science research."
BDM will receive $12.8 million under a cooperative agreement to
establish the RSPAC, which will demonstrate, test and facilitate remote sensing
database applications and new digital library technologies. BDM will be
supported by West Virginia University Research Corp., Morgantown, and Jardon
and Howard Technologies in Winter Park, Fla. The West Virginia University/NASA
Independent Verification and Validation Facility in Fairmont, W.Va., will be
the central site for RSPAC activities.
The center will extend access to remote sensing data beyond the usual
scientific community. By providing Internet access and user help, remote
sensing data now will be available to the educational community (from K-12 to
the university level), television and print media, libraries and hobbyists.
Because the data will be available over the Internet, non-traditional users
will have much greater ease of access than in the past.
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