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Nature 419, 328 (26 September 2002) | doi:10.1038/419328a

Satellite-image users fear private price hike

Tony Reichhardt

It didn't work then, and it may not work now. That's the message from some global-change researchers, who fear that privatization of the Landsat satellite system could drive up the price of images of the Earth's surface, just as it did when the service was taken out of public hands in the 1980s.