Earth Observation Scientists Taking Pulse of the Planet
Environment News Service, April, 2004 by staff
TOKYO, Japan (ENS) — Ministers of 47 nations and the European Commission have adopted a 10 year plan to develop a global climate observation system that will provide an overview of the Earth's atmospheric, oceanic and terrestrial ecosystems. The decision, taken at the Earth Observation Summit II in Tokyo, is the culmination of a year of international scientific meetings and planning sessions.
Since the first Earth Observation Summit in Washington, DC last July, an intergovernmental Group on Earth Observations has drawn up a System of Systems plan to pool data from thousands of land, sea and space based observation facilities in hopes of better predicting environmental changes and coping with natural disasters.
"The international community has to accurately evaluate...
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