NRC Disasters Roundtable on Remote Sensing and Disasters: A SpacePolicyOnline.com Meeting Summary

July 13, 2010 at 8:55 am | Posted in Remote Sensing Law Current Events | Leave a comment

by Sara M. Langston with the blog faculty

A SpacePolicyOnline.com summary of the National Research Council’s July 8, 2010 workshop on remote sensing and disasters is now available.

The Disasters Roundtable (DR) of the National Research Council’s Division on Earth & Life Studies held a half-day workshop on July 8, 2010 in Washington, D.C. The objective of the workshop was to develop a strategy or “vision” to make better use of remote sensing capabilities before, during, and after disaster events and discuss ways to overcome potential impediments in realizing this vision.

Ray Williamson, Executive Director of the Secure World Foundation, provided the keynote speech, after which two panels looked at the suggestions and concerns of both the producer and user communities of remotely sensed data for disaster management. Issues of data delivery and sharing, clearer collaboration between public and private providers, closer engagement with the public, and bridging the gap – the so-called “valley of death” – between technologists and end-users, were discussed…more