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nonliving, up to 200 nautical miles from shore. According to the article that I am reading, "In 1983 the United states became the fifty-ninth nation to decalre its 200-nautical-mile EEZ. It's interesting to note that the US has jurisdiction on particular Pacific Islands and that in 1990 both the U.S. geological Survey and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Admin states that these areas or regions can only be owned by federal and state governments, not by individuals? Is corporations an individual? In 1982 a new Law of the Sea Convention (LOSC) was written by the United Nations. A series of questions should be asked and questioned on the predictable outcome of the APEC conference.
As a student at the University of Hawaii, I passed the Seasat dish everyday on my way to classes. Seasat was first launched in 1978:
"The first civilian spaceborne imaging radar was launched in 1978 on NASA’s short-lived Seasat spacecraft, which was lost after less than a year. The launch of the European Remote Sensing (ERS-1) satellite in 1991 returned radar to space. It was followed by a twin spacecraft (ERS-2), the Japanese Earth Resource Satellite (JERS-1), and the Canadian Radarsat.
NASA flew an Earth-mapping radar on two space shuttle flights in 1994. The Spaceborne Imaging Radar C/X-band Synthetic Aperture Radar (SIR-C/X-SAR) mapped Mt. Pinatubo in April and October, providing topographic maps of lahar deposits at the beginning and end of that year’s wet season. The SRTM mission was an upgrade of this radar system."
The point of this information is just to tie in the Maka'ainana perspective and their planning schemas for the Ocean should include the Hawaiian Pacific Islanders not as asignees onto their globa agreements, but as not giving up their jurisdiction to the US just because .... or even assume we don't exist as clear owners of land and ocean culture practices that have been going on for over 2,000 years.
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