Editorial: Long-term Stability for Landsat Draws Within Sight

U.S. President Barack Obama has taken an important and long-overdue step toward operationalizing the government’s land remote sensing mission with his proposal in the 2012 budget request to transfer responsibility for funding future Landsat satellites from NASA to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), the Department of Interior branch that first called for such a system in the 1960s.