Regulacje i polityka gospodarcza · 26.10.1999

Digital Earth Interagency Working Group

The Digital Earth meeting originally announced in the October 14, 1999, Federal Register has been rescheduled from October 25, 1999, to November 10, 1999, to provide additional preparation time for interested participants. The Digital Earth Interagency Working Group, chaired by NASA with representatives from other Federal departments and agencies, will hold an open meeting at the USGS facility in Reston, Virginia, to discuss options for a near-term demonstration of the Digital Earth vision by public and private sector technology providers (for details, visit www.digitalearth.gov. Throughout Federal, State, and local government, the private sector, and other public sector interests, there exist data, infrastructure, partnerships, and capability to support the exploitation of geospatial information to answer questions of students, researchers, community leaders, and others. The goal of this meeting will be to identify existing and emerging data, infrastructure, and tools, that can be brought together to provide an ``alpha version'' demonstration of the Digital Earth vision in a limited number of use contexts (e.g., a student asking a question about the effects of pollution on the com