Landsats Aff 1
Landsats 1AC 4
Landsats 1AC 5
Landsats 1AC 7
Landsats 1AC 8
Landsats 1AC 9
Landsats 1AC 10
Landsats 1AC 12
Landsats 1AC 14
Landsats 1AC 15
Landsats 1AC 17
Landsats 1AC 18
Now Key – Landsat Failure Imminent 20
Now Key – Delays Kill the Program 21
Inherency – Data Management 22
Inherency – No USGS Budget – Long-Term Damage 23
Inherency – No USGS Budget – Long-Term Damage 24
Inherency – Landsat TOs with USGS 25
Solvency – Clarity 26
Solvency – Thermals – Tracking 27
Solvency – Timeframe 28
Solvency – AT: Unreliable 29
Solvency Advocate – 5-yr intervals 30
Solvency Advocate – DOI 31
Solvency Advocate – Single Agent 32
AT: Sats bad – Natives 34
AT: T—its 36
***DA Answers*** 37
AT: Spending 38
AT: Politics – Landsat Popular 39
AT: Politics – Landsat Popular – Oil Lobby 40
AT: Politics – Landsat Bipart 41
AT: Politics – USGS Bipart 42
AT: Politics – USGS Popular 43
AT: Politics – Earth Science Popular – AT Spending Link 44
***CP Answers*** 45
Landsats Key – AT: Other Sats Solve 46
Landsats Key – AT: Planes solve 47
AT: Private CP – Data Sharing 48
AT: Private CP – General 49
AT: Private CP – General 51
AT: Private CP – Fails – Empirics 52
AT: International CP – Fails – Tech 54
AT: International CP – Credibility 55
AT: International CP – US Key – Earth Observation 56
AT: International CP – US Key – Water Wars 57
AT: International CP – US Key – Refugees 58
AT: Japan CP – No Solvency – Tech 59
AT: Japan CP – No Solvency – JAXA 60
AT: Japan CP – No Solvency – Funding 61
AT: Japan CP – Perm 62
AT: ESA CP – Perm 63
AT: ESA CP – No Solvency – Funding 64
AT: ESA CP – No Solvency – Refugees 65
AT: ESA CP – No Solvency – ESA Corruption 66
AT: one sensor PIC 67
***Addons*** 68
Science Leadership - Solvency 69
Hegemony - Solvency 70
Power Projection - Solvency 72
Reconnaissance - Solvency 74
Disasters – Solvency 75
Environment – Solvency 76
Environmental Standards – Solvency 77
Pesticides – Solvency 78
Spending – Solvency 79
***Famine Advantage*** 80
Famine – Solvency – Precision Farming 81
Famine – Solvency – Crop Yields 82
Famine – Solvency – Agro Heg 83
Famine – Solvency – Agriculture 84
Famine – Solvency/IL – Landsats 85
Famine – Solvency/IL – Predictions 86
Famine – Solvency/IL – Predictions 87
Famine – IL – Predictions 88
Famine – IL – China Wheat 89
Famine – IL – China Rice 90
Famine – IL – Russia Wheat 91
Famine – Impact – AIDS 92
Famine – Impact – Starvation 93
Famine – Impact – Disease 94
Famine – Impact – War 95
Famine - Impact – Ethics 96
***Biodiversity Advantage*** 97
Bio-D – Solvency – General 98
Bio-D – Solvency – Research 100
Bio-D – Solvency – Quantification 101
Bio-D – Solvency – Deforestation 102
Bio-D – Solvency – Deforestation 103
Bio-D – Solvency – Land Management 104
Bio-D – Solvency – Vegetation 105
Bio-D – Solvency – Wildlife Reserves 106
Bio-D – Solvency – Assessment 107
Bio-D – Solvency/IL – Coral Reefs 108
Bio-D – Solvency/IL – Coral Reefs 109
Bio-D – Solvency/IL – Conservation 111
Bio-D – Solvency/IL – Resource Limits 113
Bio-D – IL – Data – Conservation 115
Bio-D – IL – Data – Conservation 117
Bio-D – Landsat Key – Data 118
Bio-D – Landsat Key – Data Continuity 119
Bio-D – Landsat Key – Data Continuity 121
Bio-D – Landsat Key – AT: Need Higher Res 122
Bio-D – Landsat Key – AT: Need Higher Res 123
Bio-D – Landsat Pricing Key – Conservation 125
***Water Advantage*** 126
Water – Inherency/Solvency – Thermal 127
Water – Solvency – US 128
Water – Solvency – US 129
Water – Solvency – Management 130
Water – Solvency – Management 132
Water – Solvency – Spillover 133
Water – Solvency – Resolution 134
Water – Solvency – Hydrology 135
Water – Solvency – Accuracy 136
Water – Landsats Key 137
Water – I/L – Syria 138
Water – I/L – Pakistan 139
Water – I/L – Jordan 140
Water – I/L – Uzbekistan 141
Water – I/L – Latin America 142
Water – Impact Helper – Escalation 143
Water – Impact Helper – Escalation 144
Water – Impact Helper – Escalation 145
Water – Impact – Spillover 146
Water – Impact – Mid East 147
Water – Impact – Golan Heights 148
Water – Impact – Water Wars 149
Water – Impact – Central Asia 150
Water – Impact – Indo/Pak 151
Water – Solvency – India 152
Water – I/L – India 153
Water – I/L – India 154
Water – Impact – India Economy 155
Water – Impact – India 156
Water – Solvency – China 157
Water – I/L – China 158
Water – Impact – China 159
***Refugees Advantage*** 160
Refugees – UQ – Forecasts fail 161
Refugees – Solvency – Hurricanes 166
Refugees – Solvency – Disaster management 171
Refugees – Solvency – Disaster management 173
Refugees – Solvency – Co-op 174
Refugees – Solvency – Aid 175
Refugees – IL – Prep key – Planning 176
***Genocide Advantage*** 178
Genocide – Solvency – Prevention 179
Genocide – Solvency – Prevention 181
Genocide – Solvency – Prevention 183
Genocide – Solvency – Prevention 185
Genocide – Solvency – Intervention 186
Genocide – Solvency – Intervention 187
Genocide – Solvency – Intervention 188
Genocide –Impact 189
Genocide - Impact 191
Genocide – AT: Genocide Inev 192
Landsats 1AC
Observation 1 - Inherency
Our current Landsat capability can fail at any moment
Clark 10 (Stephen, Spaceflight Now, Jan. 13, http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1001/13landsat/ accessed 7/4/110 CJQ
The nearly
26-year-old Landsat 5 remote sensing satellite has cheated death once again, but Earth
scientists will have to wait three more years for a fresh spacecraft to meet all their research needs. One of Landsat 5's radio transmitters responsible for downlinking science imagery
failed in December, but in
a remarkable turn of fortune, another radio declared failed almost 23 years ago has been unexpectedly revived. "Lo and behold, it works," said Bruce Quirk, chief of the United States Geological Survey's land remote sensing program. Science operations could resume this week, according to Quirk. "It's like taking your car
and driving into the garage, then coming back 23 years later and starting it up," Quirk said. "For it to work like this, I think it's really remarkable. I wasn't giving it a big chance of working, but Landsat 5 is kind of like the (Energizer) bunny -- it just keeps running and running." Landsat 5 was launched on March 1, 1984, on a three-year mission to continue the Landsat program's legacy of collecting Earth science data for a wide range of applications.
"We have brought it from the brink of death and back to life so many times over the last seven years,"
said Kristi Kline, Landsat program manager at the USGS Earth Resources Science and Observation Center in Sioux Falls, S.D. "
It's just amazing what our flight operations team and our engineers are able to do with that spacecraft." Landsat 5 has also recently struggled with other problems, including an August incident that sent the spacecraft tumbling out of control. The satellite's multi-spectral scanner is also not working. "
It's the oldest spacecraft of its type still functioning," Kline said. "We've certainly gotten our money's worth out of it."
The future of Landsat is in doubt, both 5 and 7 could fail at any time, and the Continuity Mission does not guarantee Landsat presence
Wigbels et al 8 (Lyn, Senior Fellow/Assistant Professor at the Center for Aerospace Policy Research at George Mason University, a Senior Associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies Space Initiatives Program, G.
Ryan Faith, adjunct fellow at CSIS, Vincent Sabathier, senior associate with the CSIS Technology and Public Policy Program, CSIS, July, http://csis.org/files/media/csis/pubs/080725_wigbels_earthobservation_web.pdf, accessed 7-6-11, JMB)
In the United States, Landsat satellites have never been considered a fully operational capability, and no single US. government agency has had the responsibility for meeting US needs for operational moderate-resolution ground imaging. Over the years, many attempts were made to commercialize the provision of moderate-resolution ground imaging data, but a viable commercial option never emerged. Consequently,
the United States has been unable to adequately address the expected gap in U.S. moderate-resolution land imaging data. Technical problems with the current Landsat 5 and 7 satellites are expected to result in their unavailability prior to the 2011 launch of the LDCM. In addition
, there currently is no successor mission to LDCM nor a replacement satellite should LDCM fail at launch or early in its operational life. The new National Land Imaging Program provides a focal point in the US government for understanding land imaging requirements and planning and budgeting for missions to meet these requirements. USGS has begun working within the Department of the Interior to begin to migrate the current Land Remote Sensing Program into the National Land Imaging Program. However, the Interior Department did not receive additional funding last year to implement
these new responsibilities, and only $2 million was requested for this by the administration for FY 2009. USGS is currently coordinating and promoting the uses of land imaging data within the Department of the Interior.
The USGS has inherited control of Landsat without the necessary funds to support the mission
Simpson 3/17 (Mike, Interior Subcommittee chairman, 2011, http://appropriations.house.gov/_files/031711InteriorUSGeologicalSurveySimpson.pdf, accessed 7-5-11, JMB)
Third, by inheriting the full funding responsibility for LandSat 9 and 10 from NASA without any of NASA's $19 billion budget, and by offsetting the $48 million increase for LandSat from other core science programs, this budget is a sign of the untenable situation we're likely to be in two years from now when the Administration sends up a budget request for LandSat that is nearly 10 times the increase proposed for FY12. We might just as well rename USGS to National Land Imaging Agency.