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DRAFT, 4/18/2005 AM Strategic Roadmap Committee #9 Interim Status Report DRAFT, 4/18/2005 AM Strategic Roadmap Committee #9 Interim Status Report Presidential Initiatives and Directives Climate Change Research (June 2001) Climate Change Science Program (CCSP) Climate Change Technology Program (CCTP) Global Earth Observation (July 2003) U.S. Integrated Earth Observation System (IEOS) Strategic Plan Provides a coherent overarching strategy to connect previously disjointed efforts Provides compelling rationale for societal, scientific, and economic imperatives Recommends and five specific near-term opportunities for investment U.S. participation in the International Global Earth Observing System of Systems (GEOSS) Vision for Space Exploration (January 2004) Collaborative Oceans Research (December 2004) Earth Science and Applications form Space is the only NASA Strategic Roadmap that addresses NASA’s all of these Presidential commitments Conceptual Roadmap Roadmap Achievements The strategic roadmap compelling questions, objectives, anticipated achievements, and decisions points, in decadal phases Unique Aspects of Earth Science Applications Only Strategic Roadmap that directly responds to multiple Presidential Initiatives and Policy Directives Fascinating science with highly beneficial results Benefits accrue in two ways From a set of investigation systems Traceable to Strategic Roadmap Scientific Objectives That trace to compelling science questions From integration of investigation systems into National (and International) systems of systems Traceable to Strategic Roadmap Integration Objectives Capability emerges through the integrated results of multiple investigations Framework for Strategic Plan Discover, Understand, Inform - The vantage point of space provides a unique opportunity to understand the underlying scientific and engineering principles behind Earth as a system, to answer sustainability and quality of life questions on Earth and elsewhere in