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International Agreements and Policies

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Earth observation satellites transcend national boundaries and geophysical space, creating transparency into activities and places that were once hidden from foreign states. This, of course, raises many issues: the ideals of cooperation, societal openness, and information-sharing along with the very real fears that spatial information could be used for sparking conflicts and other malevolent purposes.

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    United Nations Resolution 41/65. Principles Relating to Remote Sensing of the Earth from Outer Space. Adopted without a vote, 3 December 1986. Available online: http://www.oosa.unvienna.org/oosa/en/SpaceLaw/gares/html/gares_41_0065.html

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    France had launched SPOT in 1986 and the resulting images quickly outsold U.S. Landsat images. In 1988, India had launched IRS-1A. These events placed pressure on the U.S. to figure out how to promote the commercial remote sensing industry, which led to the passage of the Remote Sensing Policy Act of 1992. To implement that legislation, the Clinton Administration issued Presidential Decision Directive (PDD)-23 on 9 March 1994 to support and encourage foreign sales of images while protecting national security (Thompson 2007).

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  1. Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management , University of California, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA

    Siamak Khorram

  2. Center for Earth Observation, North Carolina State University, 5123 Jordan Hall 7106, Raleigh, NC, 27695-7106, USA

    Siamak Khorram & Stacy A. C. Nelson

  3. Forestry Sciences Laboratory, USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station, 3041 E. Cornwallis Road, Research Triangle Park, NC, 27709, USA

    Frank H. Koch

  4. 715 Shepherd St., Durham, NC, 27701, USA

    Cynthia F. van der Wiele

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Khorram, S., Koch, F.H., van der Wiele, C.F., Nelson, S.A.C. (2012). International Agreements and Policies. In: Remote Sensing. SpringerBriefs in Space Development. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3103-9_7

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