Implications of the Golden Age of Remote Sensing on Earth Observation Applications in Central America

Abstract:

Appraising the period spanning the launch of the first Landsat satellite in 1972 to the present, the common consensus within the Earth observation (EO) community is that we are currently living in a Golden Age of Remote Sensing, with access to datasets, tools, and capacity building opportunities hitherto unavailable (eg data from Landsat, the Copernicus program, Planet/NICFI, platforms such as Google Earth Engine and SEPAL, and trainings via NASAs ARSET and Europe's EO College). With the inter-governmental Group on Earth Observations (GEO) focusing its efforts on helping regions across the world to develop their EO capacities, Central America serves as a useful case study on the development of such capacity, with important implications for other emerging regions. A significant chapter of the regions development of its EO capacity can be traced to 1998 when a regional body-the Central American …

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2021

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