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Views on the World Radiocommunication Conference 2023

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Every four years, the World Radiocommunication Conference is held to discuss global policy for the use of the radio frequencies of the electromagnetic spectrum. The 2023 World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC23) will discuss specific Agenda Items which have potential impact on frequencies used for radio astronomy and Earth remote sensing. These Agenda Items were previously finalized at the 2019 Conference. This committee will assess these Agenda Items and produce a report that provides scientific expertise and advice, establishing positions as needed, in an effort to protect the scientific use of the electromagnetic spectrum at issue in the Agenda Items.

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Description

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will convene a committee to prepare a short report which will articulate the views of the U.S. science community on specific Agenda Items at issue at the 2023 World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC) with potential impact on scientific observations, particularly future radio astronomy and Earth remote sensing observations. The committee will:

  • Identify the 2023 WRC Agenda Items set at the 2019 WRC that are potentially relevant to the scientific use of the radio and microwave spectrum, namely for, but not limited to, radio astronomy and Earth remote sensing;
  • Assess each of the identified Agenda Items for their potential impact---positive, negative, or none---on radio frequency science applications;
  • Provide the scientific justification for protecting radio astronomy and Earth remote sensing observations in Agenda Items with potential impact on those observations, where appropriate;
  • Solicit and consider input from the broad international science community relevant to the committee's task; and
  • Establish a position, where needed and within the scope of the identified Agenda Items, to ensure that radio astronomy and Earth remote sensing and other related radio frequency science applications will continue to be able to make needed observations.

In preparing its report, the committee will take into account the anticipated future spectrum requirements of the scientific communities and will ensure that the needs of multiple communities are appropriately considered. The report will not consider impacts on the transmission of scientific data.

Collaborators

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Vice Chair

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Gregory Mack

Staff Officer

Sponsors

NASA

National Science Foundation

Staff

Gregory Mack

Lead

GMack@nas.edu

Linda Walker

LWalker@nas.edu

Amisha Jinandra

AJinandra@nas.edu

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