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Remote Sensing 2010, 2, 1731-1750; doi:10.3390/rs2071731 OPEN ACCESS Remote Sensing ISSN 2072-4292 /journal/remotesensing Article The Function of Remote Sensing in Support of Environmental Policy Jan de Leeuw 1,2,*, Yola Georgiadou 2, Norman Kerle 2, Alfred de Gier 2, Yoshio Inoue 3, Jelle Ferwerda 2, Maarten Smies 4 and Davaa Narantuya 5 1 International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), Nairobi, Kenya 2 ITC, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands; E-Mails: georgiadou@itc.nl (Y.G.); kerle@itc.nl (N.K.); degier@itc.nl (A.G.); j.g.ferwerda@utwente.nl (J.F.) 3 NIAES, Ecosystem Research Group, Tsukuba, Japan; E-Mail: yinoue@affrc.go.jp 4 Frogs International Environmental Management and Consultancy, The Hague, The Netherlands; E- Mail: maarten@ 5 Ministry of Environment, Ulan Bataar, Mongolia; E-Mail: dnarantuya@yahoo.co.uk * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-Mail: j.leeuw@; Tel.: +254-20-422-4831. Received: 20 May 2010; in revised form: 13 June 2010 / Accepted: 17 June 2010 / Published: 12 July 2010 Abstract: Limited awareness of environmental remote sensing’s potential ability to support environmental policy development constrains the technology’s utilization. This paper reviews the potential of earth observation from the perspective of environmental policy. A literature review of “remote sensing and policy” revealed that while the number of publications in this field increased almost twice as rapidly a