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- From: martin@space.ualberta.ca (Martin Connors)
- Newsgroups: sci.space
- Subject: Re: Magellan successors? (was Re: Support Lunar Resource Mapper Too!)
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.155654.25250@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>
- Date: 22 Jul 92 15:56:54 GMT
- References: <1992Jul22.151603.23977@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>
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- In article <1992Jul22.151603.23977@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>
- martin@space.ualberta.ca (Martin Connors) writes:
- > It is not certain, however, that the data will be so widely or freely
- > distributed as that of Magellan, as RADARsat has a profit motive. We may
- > end up in more of a Landsat or SPOT-like situation, where there is great
- > interest in the data but thinking people cannot afford to get them.
-
- I note with interest in the EOS (Jul 7 1992) that arrived just after I
- posted this, the new US National Landsat Policy Act, which will change how
- Landsat data is available...to quote from the article:
-
- "The Landsat Policy Act repeals provisions concerning commercialization of
- Landsat data and requires that all data gathered by federal agencies be
- made available to non-profit organizations at marginal cost, provided the
- agency that collected the data deems that it will not be used
- commercially."
-
- The comments on RADARsat may still hold though. Even if Canada follows in
- the US' footsteps in this, RADARsat is actually to be run by a separate
- corporation...
-
- Martin Connors - Space Research - University of Alberta
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