Charter

Ensuring long-term continuity

"...It remains the goal of the U.S. Government to transition the Landsat program from a series of independently planned missions to a sustained operational program funded and managed by a U.S. Government operational agency or agencies, international consortium, and/or commercial partnership. Concurrent with the actions cited above, the National Science and Technology Council, in coordination with NASA [National Aeronautics and Space Administration], DOI/USGS [United States Department of the Interior/United States Geological Survey], and other agencies and EOP [Executive Office of the President] offices as appropriate, will lead an effort to develop a long-term plan to achieve technical, financial, and managerial stability for operational land imaging in accord with the goals and objectives of the U.S. Integrated Earth Observation System..."

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