"... scientific rationale for observations, specifications of requirements, and applications (uses and users) based on available national and international reports and other published scientific literature."--Executive summary.
"January 1997." "U.S. Secretariat for International Global Observing System Programs [and] CENR [i.e., Committee on Environment and Natural Resources, a federal inter-agency committee] Task Force on Observations and Data Management (TFODM)."--T.p.(also, without authors, on cover). "NP-1997(01)-002-GSFC" appears on back cover.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-286).