Reference Guide to Emerging Technologies to Implement NEPA

How to Use this Guide

This Web site is designed to be used as a Reference Guide to educate members of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) community on several technology tools in hopes of sparking creative thinking on how these tools may assist them in carrying out their responsibilities -- whether it's the review of laws; compilation, management and analysis of data; preparation and submittal of reports; document review; public participation; or dispute resolution. These tools may even be powerful enough to help members of the NEPA community visualize the modernization of the NEPA process and NEPA itself.

The Guide provides a basic introduction to: satellite remote sensing technologies and to geographic information systems (GIS) and the Global Positioning System (GPS).

It also provides:

• an analysis of some of the legal issues that may arise from the use of novel methods to support decisions,
• a Survey of Remote Sensing Cases,
• a Glossary of Terms,
• and links to Web Resources.

To navigate through this site, use links above or in the column to the right.

For more detailed information, see Legal Challenges and Market Rewards to the Use of Remote Sensing Data as Evidence (2002) 12 Duke Envtl. L. & Pol'y F. 219.

The materials on this Web site were developed by Ken Markowitz as part of a presentation at the ALI-ABA Course of Study: Environmental Impact Assessment: NEPA (National Environmental Policy Act) and Related Requirements, December, 2001, Washington, DC.