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US government considers charging for popular Earth-observing data

Images from Landsat satellites and agricultural-survey programme are freely available to scientists — but for how long?
  1. Gabriel Popkin

    1. Gabriel Popkin is a freelance writer in Mount Rainier, Maryland.

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The US government is considering whether to charge for access to two widely used sources of remote-sensing imagery: the Landsat satellites operated by the US Geological Survey (USGS) and an aerial-survey programme run by the Department of Agriculture (USDA).

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Nature 556, 417-418 (2018)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-018-04874-y

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