Transcript Weathering the Storm ( A Quick Look at Past Shifting

Weathering the Storm
(An overly simplified look at past Landsat
policy and challenges for the future)
Some Important Events in Program
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NASA Earth Resources Aircraft Program & early investigations
Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo Crew Photographs - “happy snaps”
DOI proposes Earth Resources Observation System (EROS)
Skylab Earth Resources Experiment Package
Launch of ERTS-1 (Landsat 1) spacecraft with RBV and MSS
First LGSOWG meeting (Houston) and International Ground
Stations
LACIE and AGRISTARS
Chernobyl accident and Pinatubo Volcano
The “Grand Commercialization Experiment”
The month-to-month funding crisis of the late 80’s
The Gulf War and emerging global change concerns
Corona, Argon, and Lanyard declassification
Google Earth and similar search and retrieval system availability
A Plan for a U.S. National Land Imaging Program, OSTP, August
2007
Landsat Program Management Over the Past 40 Years
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1965 – DOI proposes Pecora/Fisher) an Earth Observing Satellite System
1972 - NASA initiates the program with the launch of ERTS 1 (Landsat 1)
1972-79 - NASA manages the program through the launch of Landsats 1, 2, and 3 (72, 75, and 78)
1979 - PD 54 program management transferred to DOC NOAA
1979-84 - DOC NOAA manages the program through the launches of Landsats 4 and 5 (82 and 84)
1984 – PL98-365 directs DOC to commercialize Landsat operations
1985 - DOC selects EOSAT Hughes & RCA) for 10 year Landsat contract
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2 satellites (later negotiated to 1 for $245M government funding)
Shuttle launch (later changed to Delta when West Coast shuttle launch facility scrubbed)
Government pays all Landsat operations costs for 10 year contract (85-94)
EOSAT establishes data prices and retains revenue from all data sales
1989 – DOC announces shutdown of Landsat operations due to lack of funding; initiates yearto-year crisis
1990 – Desert Storm Gulf War
1992 – PDD#5 LRSPA assigns NASA and DOD management for Landsat 7
1993 –Landsat 6 fails on launch bringing end to commercialization attempt
1994 – DOD bows out of Landsat transferring funding to NASA;
1994 - PD 23 assigns management to NASA, NOAA, and USGS
1999 – Landsat 7 successfully launched
2003 – NASA second commercialization attempt through “data buy” concept for LDCM fails – no takers
2004 – NSPD 15 leads to LDCM on NPOESS for LDCM
2005 – OSTP decision to go to “single flyer” for LDCM managed by NASA and USGS
2007 – NLIP study and report recommends future NLIP to be managed by DOI
Vision for the Future
“A National Land Imaging Program led by the U.S.
Department of the Interior to ensure that U.S land
imaging needs are met …and to maintain U.S.
leadership in civil land imaging and land science,
including the development and operation of U.S. owned
operational assets dedicated to civil land imaging
purposes….”
“A Plan For A U.S. National Land Imaging Program”, August 2007, OSTP
Reminder
“A vision without funding is just a hallucination”