Regulacje i polityka gospodarcza · 14/10/1999

Digital Earth Interagency Working Group; Meeting

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 (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 concern to 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'' of the Digital Earth vision in a limited number of use contexts (e.g., students asking a question about the effects of pollution on their community). The results of this discussion may lead to subsequent Commerce Business Daily requests for proposals.