GRC NEWS RELEASE 00-063



00-063  

For Release: October 24, 2000


Katherine K. Martin
Media Relations Office
(216) 433-2406
katherine.martin@grc.nasa.gov 

Lori J. Rachul
Media Relations Office
(216) 433-8806
lori.j.rachul@grc.nasa.gov

<h3>Glenn to Host 1-Day "Gateway to the Earth" Conference</h3> Local 
and national experts will present the various impacts and 
applications of remote sensing and global mapping data at an upcoming 
conference at NASA Glenn Research Center on Thursday, November 9. 

The Gateway to the Earth Conference will focus on recent successes, 
applications and partnering opportunities involving remote sensing 
data from the Landsat-7 satellite. Education, urban and rural 
planning, environment, resource management and related high-speed, 
high-bandwidth, terrestrial and satellite information technology will 
also be discussed.



Gateway to the Earth (G2E) is a national consortium of universities, 
federal, state, local and tribal governments and industry designed to 
promote the development of the satellite remote sensing industry in 
the United States through improved access to satellite data and 
technology for education and research. States belonging to the 
consortium include Arizona, California, Idaho, Illinois, Minnesota, 
Mississippi, Ohio, South Dakota, Texas, Washington and Wisconsin.



"Government and commercial satellite data are rapidly becoming an 
integral part of education and research and our economy as a whole," 
said Richard Beck, OhioView Consortium director and master of 
ceremonies for the conference. "This is an opportunity for educators, 
legislators, partners and potential partners to assess the progress 
and chart the future of applications of satellite imaging data."



G2E is an outgrowth of the OhioView Pilot that was started in 1996 to 
provide educational and research users with rapid, affordable access 
to NASA and USGS (U.S. Geological Survey) satellite data. Glenn, a 
partner with 10 Ohio universities and other state organizations, 
constructed OhioView's high-speed network by which images are 
transmitted and runs the servers between USGS in Sioux Falls, SD and 
Glenn by which the images are stored.



"Glenn is working with other NASA centers and the USGS to extend the 
OhioView data access system to other states," said Calvin T. Ramos, 
chief, Satellite Networks and Architectures Branch. "Other agencies, 
such as the Bureau of Land Management and the Environmental 
Protection Agency are already using G2E satellite data."



Currently, OhioView provides teachers with satellite images to 
facilitate realistic views of Earth. Every 16 days, new images of 
Ohio are transmitted from NASA's Landsat-7 Earth Observing Satellite. 
It takes about 10 images to put together an entire view of the state 
of Ohio.



More information, a conference agenda and a list of speakers are 
available at



http://g2e.grc.nasa.gov/index.htm



Information on the Gateway to the Earth: OhioView Pilot is at



http://gateway2earth.org



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Note to Editors: Media representatives are invited to attend the 
Gateway to the Earth Conference in Glenn's DEB Auditorium from 8:30 
a.m. to noon. Those interested in attending should call ahead to 
Katherine Martin or the Media Relations Office at 216/433-2901 in 
order to be cleared through security. Glenn's DEB Auditorium is 
located on the north side of Brookpark Road off Grayton Road and 
I-480 in Cleveland, OH. 

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