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SCHOOL: ADVISORS: COMMITTEE MEMBERS: MPACT Status: Complete - Except Indecipherables Title: Privatizing space-derived data: A case study of the effects of the Land Remote-Sensing Commercialization Act of 1984 on the academic geography community Abstract: The privatization of the land remote-sensing satellite system (Landsat) served as a case study for examining the effects of a policy action, the Land Remote-Sensing Commercialization Act of 1984 (Public Law 98-365), on users of government information. The literature review covered policy studies, information science, government information policy and clarified the concepts of privatization vs. commercialization, effect vs. impact, use and users of government information, and scientific and technical information policy. The research design combined multiple data collection methods. The descriptive phase employed a qualitative case study to separate and describe the predicted effects of the law from the policy and political context. It highlighted the contribution of the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science to PL98-365 which mandated the establishment of a national archive for land remote sensing data. The empirical phase incorporated two dissimilar data collection methods: a survey of academic geographers specializing in remote sensing with experience in the use of Landsat data, and a content analysis of published research in four remote sensing journals. |
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