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CIAO DATE: 8/99

No More Secrets? Policy Implications of Commercial Remote Sensing Satellites

Governance, Transparency and Civil Society
May 26, 1999

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

 

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  1. 8:30 – 9:00: Welcome and Policy Overview

  2. 9:00 – 10:30: Systems and Capabilities
    • (a) Remote Sensing Capabilities: What Can Satellites See?
      Vipin Gupta, Sandia National Laboratories
    • (b) Existing and Planned Remote Sensing Systems
      William Stoney, Mitretek Corporation
    • (c) Challenges of Imagery Interpretation
      Robert Osterhout, Science Applications International Corporation
    • (d) The Globalization of the Remote Sensing Industry
      Ray Williamson, Space Policy Institute, George Washington University
       

  3. 11:00 – 12:15: Humanitarian and Environmental Applications

  4. 1:15 – 2:30: Security

  5. 2:30 – 3:30: Media Uses of Remote Sensing Imagery

  6. 3:45 – 5:00: Policy Roundtable

  7. Carnegie Endowment Working Paper

  8. Bibliography on Remote-Sensing Satellites

  9. Selected Remote Sensing and Related Web Sites

 

 

 

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