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U.S. commercial remote sensing has boomed but has it hit a wall because of budget concerns or is this merely a pause before the true explosion of commercially available imagery goes mainstream?
Show Notes
Within urban and suburban (built-up) areas, management of the water cycle requires a certain balance between permeable surfaces such as vegetation or soil, and impermeable surfaces such as buildings and pavement. At a very high level, this issue is being addressed throughout Europe as a component of the Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) program. Read all about it in the ERDAS white paper Mapping Urban Permeability with ERDAS IMAGINE (pdf).
Is it time for a global licensing framework for geospatial data? The GSDI Legal and Economic Working group thinks so and offered a presentation and a way forward at the GSDI 13 conference held in Quebec City in May. The effort aims to harmonize existing licensing without changing fundamental access policies and funding models and be compatible with the diferences in national legal systems. That's a tall order, but an important one as the world moves toward geodata sharing. Geoff Zeiss reports.