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NASA/CSDA  

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  • The Commercial Smallsat Data Acquisition (CSDA) Program was established to identify, evaluate, and acquire data from commercial sources that support NASA's Earth science research and application goals. NASA's Earth Science Division (ESD) recognizes the potential impact commercial small-satellite (smallsat) constellations may have in encouraging/enabling efficient approaches to advancing Earth System Science and applications development for societal benefit. Commercially acquired data may also provide a cost-effective means to augment and/or complement the suite of Earth observations acquired by NASA and other U.S. government agencies and those by international partners and agencies. Going forward, NASA-funded researchers will be able to request access to the data from the commercial small satellite vendors. NASA will maintain the archive of data purchased from the vendors. Information about these vendors and data is available on the Commercial Datasets page. CSDA was initiated in 2017 with the Private-Sector Small Constellation Satellite Data Product Pilot Project. (en)

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  • 2021-04-22 09:26:03.0 [tstevens] Insert Concept add broader relation (NASA/CSDA [ec9f5bc3-9143-46fa-b30b-2c69421adc23,578414] - NASA [4fd0aa9d-1a80-4dde-8452-c69b5c4d08cc,561674]);
  • 2021-04-22 09:29:02.0 [tstevens] insert AltLabel (id: null category: primary text: Commercial Smallsat Data Acquisition, NASA language code: en); insert Definition (id: null text: The Commercial Smallsat Data Acquisition (CSDA) Program was established to identify, evaluate, and acquire data from commercial sources that support NASA's Earth science research and application goals. NASA's Earth Science Division (ESD) recognizes the potential impact commercial small-satellite (smallsat) constellations may have in encouraging/enabling efficient approaches to advancing Earth System Science and applications development for societal benefit. Commercially acquired data may also provide a cost-effective means to augment and/or complement the suite of Earth observations acquired by NASA and other U.S. government agencies and those by international partners and agencies. Going forward, NASA-funded researchers will be able to request access to the data from the commercial small satellite vendors. NASA will maintain the archive of data purchased from the vendors. Information about these vendors and data is available on the Commercial Datasets page. CSDA was initiated in 2017 with the Private-Sector Small Constellation Satellite Data Product Pilot Project. language code: en); insert Resource (id: null type: provider url: https://earthdata.nasa.gov/esds/csdap);

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