Comments on: Scientists are from Mars, remote sensing advocates are from Earth http://www.spacepolitics.com/2006/02/15/scientists-are-from-mars-remote-sensing-advocates-are-from-earth/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=scientists-are-from-mars-remote-sensing-advocates-are-from-earth Because sometimes the most important orbit is the Beltway... Wed, 17 Sep 2014 13:35:41 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 By: Donald F. Robertson http://www.spacepolitics.com/2006/02/15/scientists-are-from-mars-remote-sensing-advocates-are-from-earth/#comment-6993 Thu, 16 Feb 2006 23:32:02 +0000 http://www.districtofbaseball.com/spacepolitics/?p=846#comment-6993 I can see very good reasons for keeping the Landsat record going, but I agree that it should belong to the USGS or NOAA (or even a military service before NASA). Also, I can think of no reason today why 30m to 10m multispectral imaging should cost what Landsat costs; this should be an inexpensive smallsat product. If so, it could probably be commercialized.

— Donald

]]> By: Mike Puckett http://www.spacepolitics.com/2006/02/15/scientists-are-from-mars-remote-sensing-advocates-are-from-earth/#comment-6992 Thu, 16 Feb 2006 21:29:54 +0000 http://www.districtofbaseball.com/spacepolitics/?p=846#comment-6992 Why should remote sensing remain a function of NASA? Why not NOAA or USGS? These are not the bleeding edge fields they once were.

Better yet, why not just buy data from the private sector and make governement a customer? I cannot see why other than for national security purposes, the governemnt should remain anything but a consumer of private remote sensing services.

]]> By: Donald F. Robertson http://www.spacepolitics.com/2006/02/15/scientists-are-from-mars-remote-sensing-advocates-are-from-earth/#comment-6991 Thu, 16 Feb 2006 18:04:38 +0000 http://www.districtofbaseball.com/spacepolitics/?p=846#comment-6991 Unfortunately, it’s the wrong one. More people live in the United States than Antarctica, yet we still spend lots of money sending scientists to study the latter.

— Donald

]]> By: Greg Kuperberg http://www.spacepolitics.com/2006/02/15/scientists-are-from-mars-remote-sensing-advocates-are-from-earth/#comment-6990 Thu, 16 Feb 2006 05:40:34 +0000 http://www.districtofbaseball.com/spacepolitics/?p=846#comment-6990 Udall has a point.

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