The growing number of commercial sources for remotely sensed data offers users more choices than ever before. The key to using data from these new sources is understanding their characteristics and capabilities, and the data they produce. The Joint Agency Commercial Imagery Evaluation (JACIE) program was formed to leverage Federal agencies' resources for the characterization of commercial remote sensing data and to share those results across the Federal Government and beyond. Consisting of representatives from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), the JACIE team performs product analysis of commercial and other remote sensing data and information products, providing Earth scientists and other users with awareness and independent verification of commercial imagery data quality. The JACIE team provides independent characterizations of delivered image and image-derived end products. Each team member agency brings their resources and respective strengths to this task, providing Federal users in-depth assessments of commercial imagery quality. JACIE team efforts have been instrumental in several improvements to commercial image product quality and have enhanced working relationships between government and the commercial remote sensing industry. Results of JACIE evaluations are presented at the annual JACIE Civil Commercial Imagery Evaluation Workshop.



Civil Commercial Imagery Evaluation Workshop

• March 19-22, 2001
• November 8-10, 2004
• March 14-16, 2006
• March 20-22, 2007
• March 25-27, 2008