John D. Woodward, Jr.
Links to Other Emerging Technologies

Technology Links

• The American Society for Photogrammetry & Remote Sensing ("ASPRS") provides information on imaging and geospatial data.



• The Institute of Navigation is dedicated to the advancement of the art and science of navigation. This site offers information on global positioning systems and other navigation topics.



• Smart Cards are plastic cards that contain an embedded computer chip. The chip can be used to store and process information in many ways. To learn more about how smart cards are changing the way we live and work, follow this link to a recent National Institute of Standards and Technology report -- Card Technology Developments and Gap Analysis Interagency Report.

Law and Regulatory Links

• By signing PDD-23 in 1994, President Clinton privatized satellite reconnaissance. Commercial Remote Sensing Satellites -- This Carnegie Endowment publication, entitled Secrets for Sale: How Commercial Satellite Imagery Will Change the World, discusses policy implications of this emerging technology.
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  Commercial Observation Satellites: At the Leading Edge of Global Transparency examines the new generation of high-resolution commercial and civilian imaging satellites that will offer almost anyone timely overhead images of locations that are geographically remote, politically inaccessible, or simply difficult to comprehend without an overhead perspective. It is available free from the RAND wep page. My RAND colleague, John C. Baker, a leading expert on satellite reconnaissance policy issues, is a co-editor of this work.



• The Interagency GPS Executive Board ("IGEB") manages the global positioning system (GPS) and its U.S. Government augmentations as a national asset.



• The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ("NOAA") provides information on topics ranging from obtaining a license for a commercial remote sensing satellite to viewing 3-D weather images.

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