CRSP: Great First Steps The Global Context

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CRSP Great First StepsThe Global Context

• Clark Nelson
• SPOT Image Corporation

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Pay no attention to the man behind the
curtain! The Wiz
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The Global Reality

• Todays remote sensing companies could not exist
  without
• foreign investment
• foreign infrastructure
• foreign partners
• foreign technology
• and most importantly.
• .Global Customers

There is no strong U.S. industrial base
without a global context.
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NSP Essence

• We will do whatever it takes to fulfill our
  users needs.

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U.S. Industry Extremes
Very coarse Resolution 30m
Very high Resolution lt 1M
The Data Gap

• Are we serving the users needs?
• Who fills the data gap?
• Does this develop a strong industrial base?
• Data continuity programs?

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Strong U.S. Industrial Base

• Data providers (U.S. and others)
• Value-added companies
• RD groups
• USERS, USERS, USERS
• and all the types of companies that make the
  Weather Channel so accessible
• Care, feeding and growth of our industrial base
  comes from a range of data types, multiple
  sources, and diversity of imagery, applications,
  products and services.

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CRSPThe Right StepsPolicy Implementation

• 1.5B on commercial imagery and systems
• Fulfill public and strategic needs
• Develop commercial sector to share costs
• Recognizing global context and contribution
• Global Partnerships!
• Embrace, exploit, understand and control non-U.S.
  systems
• 2-way commercial street

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Our National Concerns

• Security
• Imagery is everywhere already
• USGS, K-Mart and internet provide everything
  needed
• Technology Lead
• Government spending is the ONLY thing that
  controls this. We maintain a significant lead,
  and can supplement with partnerships
• Business Lead
• SIZE DOESNT MATTER!
• Better, faster, smarter wins
• Access! (exploitation, distribution, integration)

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National Space Policy Should
Nullify
Clarify not
our Governments ability to partner with
domestic and international industry to strengthen
our own industrial base