RECORD NUMBER OF REQUESTS FOR NASA DATA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79B00752A000300040003-9
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• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 11, 2013
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: June 23, 1971
• Content Type: REPORT

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RELEASE NO: 71-114
fOR RELEASE: WEDNESDAY A.M.
June 23, 1971
RECORD NUMBER OF REQUESTS FOR NASA DATA
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration
has received more than 600 proposals from potential domestic
and international users of data expected to be obtained from
the Earth Resources Technology Satellites (ERTS) and the
Earth Resources Experiment Package (EREP) to be carried on
Skylab.
This is the greatest number of proposals for experiments
ever received by NASA in response to an announcement of
opportunity for analysis of space-derived data.
Government, universities, and industry, foreign and
domestic, are interested in a wide range of applications of
the data including agriculture, forestry, geography, demo-
graphy, cartography, geology, hydrology, oceanography, meteor-
ology, environmental quality, ecology and the techniques
required to convert sensor data into the desired information.
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For example, an experimenter might want to have a
certain set of sensors or cameras look at a precise area of
a state at certain days and times for estimating crop or timber
inventories. A test of such a use would be worthwhile scien-
tifically and, if the sensors were not committed at the same
times or days on other investigations, it would be technically
feasible.
NASA and the cooperating user agencies, the United States
Departments of Agriculture, Interior, Commerce, the .Navy
and the Corps of Engineers, want a balanced program of reserach
to demonstrate the utility and economy of remote sensing in
natural resources and environmental studies.
NASA asked potential users in early February to submit
their ideas on how they would propose to conduct experiments
to determine the utility of ERTS or EREP data.
Nine proposal evaluation panels in as many disciplines
are now meeting near NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center,
Greenbelt, Md., to study the proposals from more than 550
domestic and 80 international sources. The panels are com-
posed of more than 100 scientists who are experts in the
various disciplines involved.
ERTS-A will be launched~by NASA next spring and ERTS-B
in 1973. The first Skylab carrying the EREP will be launcYted
in 1973.
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ERTS/EREP PP,~JPOSALS RECEIVEDI
FROP1 FOREIG~~ COUtnRIES
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UNITED KINGDOM
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T~IIS REPRESS"~lTS 35 PROPOSALS RECEIVED FP,O"~1 27 COUPlTRIES,
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DISTRIB~JTIOIt MAY OF DO;UrSTIC PRAPOSALS
State Government Proposals
O Total au~ber of'University, Industry and Individual Proposals (by state)
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