REMOTE SENSING AND THE PRIVATE SECTOR ISSUES FOR DISCUSSION A TECHNICAL MEMORANDUM

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• Publication Date: March 1, 1984
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REMOTE SENSING AND
THE PRIVATE SECTOR
ISSUES FOR DISCUSSION
A TECHNICAL MEMORANDUM
CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES
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WasAlnOton, D. C. 20510
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4fflce of Techn~ogy Asse~sme~t.
C~rissbnsi Bosr~d ~.~ Congress:
MORR3S K.`UDAI.I,, ~;
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CHAKLES McC. MATHIAS, JR.
EDWARD M. KBNNEDY
Maseaclueettu
ERNF.ST F. HOLLINGS
Soath Carolina
CLAIBORNE DELI.
l~levde Island
CHARLES N. KIIyIBALL, Cliaiiman
Miah~st Reeean~h lnst[~tte
EARL BEt,S'TLIIVE
univs~sity,aF A/aslca
CFIARLES A. BOV~ISHER
General wtir~:o
CLAIRE T. DERRICK
CaG~fonnia !and Coarmiseion
GEORGE E. ~xOwra, JR.
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JOHN D. DII~IIGEII.
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WIRY WINK, JIt.
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CLARENCE E.1~~IILLER
Ct'>~P'61t `EVANS
Lowe
JOHN H. GffiB41+IS "
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Adnsca~ry Council
JAMES C. FLETCHER
University ~ Aitbb
S. DAVID FREE)ARAN
Fenrieyorce Valley AutGc-rity
G1I~RT DUDE
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caRl..rl. HOnGEs
Univerdty of Arisona
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JOfIIVi H. GIBBONS
RACHEL. McCULi.OGH
University of Wisovnsin
WILLIAM 1? PERRY
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` DAVID S. POTTIER
Cad Motors Corp.
LE6~fS THOMAS
Mil' S,k~n~Cettering
C'anc+rt Center
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Figure 8.-Deliveries of Landsat MSS Data to
Federal Users by NASA?GSFC and DOI?EDC
1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984
Fiscal years
NOTE:'Breakdown of purchases by Federal users in fiscal year 1983 unavailable
at present.
SOURCE: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and Office of
Technology Assessment.
sales evidence. The technical staff continue to see
large potential benefits for their agency operations
from the systematic application of Landsat data,
if the system could be depended on to supply data
dependably and promptly. The Bureau of Land
Management (BLM), for example, has primary
responsibility for monitoring vast.tracts of west-
ern U.S. range and forest lands. The Denver Of-
fice of BLM made major investments in data-
processing equipment in order to take advantage
of the lower costs of Landsat data before prices
rose and special acquisition surcharges were in-
stituted. BLM currently is restrained in placing
future orders for data because of insufficient funds
and uncertainty over the future of the program.
CY 1983
Agency CY 1982 (to 8-17-83)
Department of Commerce .................................... $ 26,531 $ 14,006
Department of Agriculture (USDA) ............................. 100,101 70,986
USDA-Foreign Agricultural Service ........................... N.A. 2,375,437a
Department of the Interior ................................... 402,232 181,016
National Aeronautics and Space Administration ................ 55,967 29,108
Department of State (including AID) ........................... 11,682 380
Department of Defense ...................................... 122,013 74,076
Central Intelligence Agency .................................. 41,435 1,390,650a
Other Federal agencies (12) .................................. 41,558 10,390
Total dollars ............................................. $801,519 $4,416,049
alncreased Income in calendar year 1983 attributed largely tc charges for special acquisitions, i.e., customer-stipulated area
covered, timing, and condition of cloud cover.
SOURCE: EROS Data Center, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Agency Digital Photographic
Department of Commerce ............... 52 486
Department of Agriculture (USDA) ........ 118 2,492
USDA-Foreign Agricultural Services...... N.A. N.A.
Department of the Interior ............... 1,038 13,314
National Aeronautics and Space
Administration ....................... 128 682
Department of State (including AID)....... 5 325
Department of Defense .................. 217 4,984
NSC/CIAb .............................. 7 433
aAcquisition charges of $2.4 million in calendar year 1983.
bAcquisition charges of $1.4 million In calendar year 1983.
SOURCE: EROS Data Center, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
CY 1983 (to 8-17-83)
Digital Photographic
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71
933
N.A.
N.A.
121
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602
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Table 11.-U.S. Government Purchases of Landsat
Data for Domestic and for Overseas Purposes
(in dollars)
CY 1983
CY 1982 (to 8-17-83)
Domestic agencies:
Department of the Interior........ $402,232 $ 181,016
Department of Agriculture ........ 100,101 70,986
Department of Commerce ........ 26,531 14,006
Total ........................ $528,864 $ 266,008
Agencies with overseas responsibillt/es:
Foreign Agricultural Service ...... N.A. $2,375,437
Department of Defense .......... $122,013 74,076
Department of State (AID)a ....... 11,682 380
NSCICIA ....................... 41,435 1,390,650
Total ........................ $175,130 $3,840,543
aAID stipulates use of Landsat imagery in many overseas contract areas not
repeated within this table.
SOURCE: EROS Data Center, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
provided to OTA on Sept. 20, 1983.
While USDA is making operational use of the
data, the Department is now paying for data that
it previously received practically free through
the Johnson Center for Manned Space Flight in
Houston, Tex. The volume of data purchases re-
flects the agencies' ability to pay for them in the
context of an overall budget. This, in turn, is at-
tributed by some agency analysts to interventions
by OMB which overrode agency desires.
Information on recent overall sales trends based
on latest EDC reports as provided in table 8 is con-
firmed by detailed information supplied in the
NOAA Landsat statistical summary for fiscal year
1982 and fiscal year 1983 (table 12 and figs. 10
and 11). Figure 11 shows that in terms of dollars
spent, USGS and the category of non-Federal
users have maintained a fairly constant dollar
level of orders. The number of images and com-
puter-compatible tapes purchased has decreased
sharply for all purchasers outside of the Federal
Government. For the first time, sales to Federal
agencies have exceeded sales to the non-Federal
U.S. community (table 8) and by a significant
amount. This appears to be a result of the direc-
tive by OMB that each agency would account for
its actual use of Landsat data, and therefore may
not reflect a real trend.
Figure 9.-Quarterly Sales of MSS Imagery and Digital
Frames (total sales, including non?Federal
and foreign customers)
2 3
Fiscal year 1982
Relationship Between Federal Users
of Data and Agency Mission
The remote-sensing requirements of Federal
agencies as well as State and local governments
were examined in exhaustive detail by an inter-
agency task force in 1978 and 1979.3 Among other
uses, the report served to help justify continued
funding of the TM Landsat sensor." Although it
was not distributed beyond NASA and DOD, an
unclassified section of the report listing the re-
quirements for civilian agencies yields the data of
figures 11 and 12. It states the requirements of
eight Federal agencies as well as State and local
uses, posed against a set of physical quantities or
'Integrated Remote Sensing System Study (IRS').
'TM development actually began in 1976.
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