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Decision Tools Projects
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 Technical
Assistance to the United Nations Compensation Commission
Earthpace provided technical assistance
to the United Nations Compensation Commission (UNCC)
to develop an information management system for the
assessment of claims for environmental damage resulting
from Iraq's aggression during the 1990 Gulf War. The
report included analysis of potentially-applicable
satellite remote sensing technologies, digital libraries,
and other decision-making tools.
 Oil
Spill Emergency Response Decision Information System
Through our work with the Environmental Legal Information
Systems Project (ELIS), a cooperative project funded
by NASA, Earthpace has gained extensive
experience in understanding the capabilities of geographic
information systems and Earth observation satellites
to improve environmental management. For example,
Earthpace developed and presented a
demonstration Oil
Spill Emergency Response Decision Information System
as part of the US delegation to the 2nd International
Symposium in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada in
June 2001. The System was centered on the capability
of Web-based GIS to call up and serve information
from remote sources including processed satellite
data, Environmental Protection Agency habitat data,
and census data.
Publications and
Presentations
Earthpace staff have developed
presentations and publications on the use of digital
Earth science data for environmental management. A paper
written by Earthpace President Ken Markowitz
entitled "Legal
Challenges and Market Rewards to the Use and Acceptance
of Digital Information as Evidence" was accepted
by the Duke University Law and Policy Forum for publication.
Ken also was invited to give a presentation at the ALI-ABA
Conference on Implementing the National Environmental
Policy Act (NEPA) where he presented a paper entitled
"Emerging Technologies for the National Environmental
Policy Act (NEPA)." The paper was published in
the Conference proceedings. The presentation
can be viewed here. 
Visit the Earthpace
Publications page for a full bibliography.
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