WHOAA NOAA! Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites

By Site Editor, Satnews Publishers, Posted 06/08/09

Link: http://www.satnews.com/cgi-bin/story.cgi?number=1970904111

"NOAA scientists have teamed up with experts from the University of Maryland and North Carolina State University to form the Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites. The new institute will use satellite observations to detect, monitor and forecast climate change, and its impact on the environment, including ecosystems." “...we have to find ways to best leverage all of our available resources, including the information we get from satellites,” said Mary Kicza, assistant administrator for NOAA’s Satellite and Information Service. “Bringing together some of the best minds to study satellite imagery and data will shed more light on how our climate is changing.” In addition to several university collaborators with NOAA, Remote Sensing Systems, a business in Santa Rosa, CA provides data processing to users via contract with NASA." Commercial processing of satellite data from a wide range of sources for sale as data products is anticipated in the near-future (search on Cisco).