This infographic represents the known policy, economic, sociocultural, and technological inhibitors and enablers of the sustainability of the US civil space Earth Observation Enterprise (EOE). The EOE works across sectors. For any Earth observing system supporting continuity observations over multi-decadal timescales or new observations, there are thirteen use cases. At present, there are twelve different business models.
This landscape map provides a high-level overview of the complexity of this space. Earth’s Space Future aimed to investigate a sustainable business model architecture to support both sustained and new Earth observations as key enabling infrastructure.