[Satellite Today 07-04-08] NASA awarded $3.3 million to a South Dakota State University project intended to make satellite data easier to use and access via the Internet, the two organizations announced July 3.
    The five-year project, led by David Roy a professor at the University’s Geographic Information Science Center of Excellence, is a collaboration with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) through its Center for Earth Resources Observations and Science.
    The proposal is to take Landsat observations every 16 days for all the contiguous United States and Alaska for a seven-year period. Scientists will spend the first half of the five-year period developing a prototype at the university, which will be implemented at the USGS.