#costbenefit — Public Fediverse posts

@shinmera
This same approach & ‘costing’ apply to public health and also public libraries. Invisible when working well, costly failures when not.

#costBenefit #publicHealth #publicLibraries #invisibility #failure #precautionaryPrinciple #publicGoods

USGS and Australia To Continue Partnership in Landsat Next Satellite Mission
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https://www.usgs.gov/news/featured-story/usgs-and-australia-continue-partnership-landsat-next-satellite-mission <-- shared press release
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https://www.linkedin.com/posts/gregcocks_gis-spatial-mapping-activity-7175533055325962240-H4Kt <-- link to post with resources about Landsat Next
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #remotesensing #earthobservation #monitoring #satellite #Landsat #LandsatNext #planning #global #imagery #visualisation #spectral #usecase #appliedscience #economicimpact #economicvalue #value #costbenefit #multispectral #synoptic #natural #humanimpact #australia #cooperation #agreement
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) | NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration | NASA Goddard Space Flight Center | Geoscience Australia

Landsat Next – Satellites Offers Improved Data To Earth
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https://doi.org/10.3133/fs20243005 <-- link to USGS fact sheet 2024-3005
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https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/satellites/landsat-next/ <-- NASA page
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https://www.usgs.gov/landsat-missions/landsat-next <-- USGS page
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https://youtu.be/339KeL29tig?si=kr9asLJS5MeHZg5Z <-- NASA Goddard overview video
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“With a trio of smaller satellites that can each detect 26 wavelengths of light, the Landsat Next mission is expected to look very different from its predecessors that have been observing Earth for 50 years. This new plan for Landsat Next, a joint mission of NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey, is designed to provide more frequent, and finer resolution, data of the changing surface of Earth…”
#GIS #spatial #mapping #remotesensing #earthobservation #monitoring #satellite #Landsat #LandsatNext #planning #global #imagery #visualisation #spectral #usecase #appliedscience #economicimpact #economicvalue #value #costbenefit #multispectral #synoptic #natural #humanimpact
@USGS @nasa @NASAGoddard @USGSEROS

Inflation Reduction Act Accelerates USGS Effort To Collect High-Resolution Data Of Landscapes Across 25 States [3DEP LiDAR and other elevation open datasets]
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https://www.usgs.gov/news/national-news-release/inflation-reduction-act-accelerates-usgs-effort-collect-high-resolution <-- USGS news release
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #NGTOC #3DEP #elevation #lidar #ifsar #opendata #ira #infrastructure #USGS #CONUS #Alaska #topography #pointcloud #dem #costbenefit #roi #benefits #naturalresources #3delevationprogram #funding #seamless #1metre #topobathy #CoNED #tbdem #hydrospatial #bathymetry #landscapes #landcover #hydrology #riverbeds #precisionagriculture #floodmapping #flooding #ecosystems #partnerships