Landsats Aff

Gonzaga Debate Institute 2011

Gemini Landsats Aff

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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.