Daniel W Opstal
Daniel W. Opstal is the Deputy Program Coordinator for the National Land Imaging Program at the U.S. Geological Survey. He is also the emeritus Executive Secretary of the Civil Applications Committee (CAC) where he worked with the defense/intel community on the collaborative use of geospatial technologies.
As Deputy PC, Dan helps coordinate the $100M National Land Imaging Program, which operates the Landsat satellites and provides the Nation’s portal to one of the largest archives of remotely sensed land data in the world. He is responsible for providing program guidance, formulating and executing budgets, interfacing with senior Administration and Congressional staff and building international and industry earth observation partnerships.
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