Thursday, December 17, 2009

A Global 'Planetary Skin' Network Will Monitor Earth's Resources

Planetary Skin Satellites join forces with drones and
surface sensors to monitor the Earth NASA/Cisco


From Popular Science:

NASA and Cisco officially launch a $100 million effort to integrate ground, sea, air and space sensors.

Every day, farmers and legislators make billions of small- and large-scale decisions that affect the Earth's resources, and typically rely on thousands of fragmented sources of data. Now NASA has joined tech firm Cisco in creating a $100 million "Planetary Skin" that would integrate all the Earth data from satellites, aerial drones and ground sensors, and put it in the hands of any decisionmakers who need it.

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