Earth Observing System

Funding Requirements for NASA's EOSDIS Gao ID: AIMD-95-153FS June 8, 1995

This fact sheet reviews NASA's Earth Observing System Data and Information System, which is intended to study global change by gathering information on how the earth functions as a single, integrated system. GAO profiles estimated funding requirements for the program on the basis of information provided by the Office of Mission to Plant Earth, NASA Headquarters, and the Earth Science Data and Information System Project Office at the Goddard Space Flight Center.

GAO found that: (1) EOS program costs will total $8.3 billion through fiscal year (FY) 2000; (2) the EOSDIS Core System contract is expected to cost $826 million through FY 2003; (3) about one-third of EOS costs will go to EOSDIS, which will operate EOS satellites and instruments, provide ground acquisition, processing, storage, management, and distribution of EOS data, and make the enormous quantity of data accessible to as many as 10,000 scientists and other users; and (4) NASA has developed an interim system to make current earth science data from disparate systems available to users.



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